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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
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Originally Posted by ms_ann_thrope
"Possibility of remedy" more accurately captures my sentiment.
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I also particularly like the word 'remedy' in this context because it made me think of a good analogy: Nobody would complain that a medicine is ineffective because "all it does" is cure you of an illness, not make it as if you had never been ill. The cure itself is the best possible outcome.
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For that matter, a remedy needn't be a cure. (There are a lot of cold remedies for sale, but you know the saying about curing the common cold...) It's just a matter of redress, of mitigating some harm. We live with side effects in medical treatments, too. Nobody says
Hooray for side effects, except those women who were having orgasms when they sneezed, of course; rather, we accept them as a less-unpleasant alternative.
We can't give someone his ten years back, but we can at least turn him loose, apologize, give him a million bucks, give him ten free swings with a Singaporean cane at the prosecutor's bare arse, and hope that the nightmares stop eventually.