and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus

Many survivors were treated for injuries in emergency makeshift hospitals, but many more died of gangrene, malnutrition, and infectious diseases.

We would never accept medical practitioners advising ultra expensive and ineffective aspirins for gangrene because the cost of aspirin outweighs the cost of losing the leg.

Here, after all, is a narrative that neatly aligns the promise of prosperity with the struggle against injustice. As Pope Francis said on his recent trip to Latin America corruption is the moth, the gangrene of a people.

If we had Redwood like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

We would never accept medical practitioners advising ultra expensive and ineffective aspirins for gangrene because the cost of aspirin outweighs the cost of losing the leg. Why, then, should we tolerate such fallacious arguments when debating the costliest public policy decision in the history of mankind?

When an arm is amputated, or a leg is amputated, for gangrene, or you lose it in war for example, in the Iraq war, it's now a serious problem you continue to vividly feel the presence of that missing arm, and that's called a phantom arm or a phantom leg.