During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not have to give out as many free refills of coffee. This policy by the fast food chain is the reason the jury awarded $2.7 million dollars in punitive damages in the McDonald’s hot coffee case. Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for their inappropriate business practice.
That’s a funny way of saying that she sent over 90% of donations directly to the Vatican, instead of putting them towards hospice work. Sure, she didn’t “steal from her hospice”… the money didn’t even reach the hospice in the first place!
But hey, she managed to spare some change to fund monasteries over Europe, and followed Mahatma Gandhi’s steps in “no painkillers for thee, but all of them for me”.
You do know that in India, especially at the time, there was a ban on painkillers. Morphine wasn’t even allowed for medicinal uses, so it’s not that she kept the painkillers for herself, it’s that she didn’t have them to begin with.
You’re quoting “Hell’s Angel” which has been pretty thoroughly debunked as bullshit
You don’t seem to know there is more than one kind of painkiller (US, land of the opioids, amirite?). India had banned oral opium, not for medical use; they didn’t join the Metamozole banning stupidity until 2013, just in time for other countries to start legalizing it as a way to combat opioid addictions (coincidentally, the opioid epidemic in the US started about when Metamozole got banned… surely no relation).
Saint Mother Teresa, kept giving her patients acetaminophen, several orders less effective than any of the alternatives she had available.
Haven’t read that, and don’t plan on doing so. If what I’m saying, based on public sources, happens to match what’s written in there, then you might want to revisit your definition of “pretty thoroughly debunked as bullshit”.
Except if you checked the “public sources”, you’d see you’re literally just regurgitating the hit piece done by Hitchens, and absolutely nothing from the real history.
Additionally, Morphine, as I said, was illegal at the time. Her tylenol was the best she could do at the time.
Not sure which sources are you regurgitating, since Morphine was legal for medical use, and you completely glossed over Metamizole.
Sounds like the “War on Drugs” talking points, that have so effectively spread illegal (and highly profitable) opioid abuse in the US.
It was India in the 1950’s dude
Precisely, dude:
1884 maybe…
Sides, what makes you think she even had this. The Indian Governement’s always been strict and it’s not like they’re giving this Nun from another country access to top of the line medicine. Especially when her patients are people so far gone that hospitals literally will not take them, because no one’s ever heard of Pallative Care, because Theresa’s in the middle of inventing the concept!
You may want to brush up on Indian history, including the 19th century India-China wars on (export) of opium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances_Act,_1985
If you check the “non criticism” parts of Mother Teresa’s Wikipedia article linked earlier, you may notice how “this Nun from another country” was receiving Indian awards since 1962.
So no, there is no justifying of what she did for decades… unless you want to think the Indian government was fine with removing the terminally ill off the streets and dumping them into a hellhole run by a bunch of religious fanatics.
Except palliative care is not praying the pain away, this is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care