Well, you know, I know this was maybe a sort-of extreme act on - is it Brennan? - well, on his part, but then, all the medicine in this episode was so ridiculously wrong that I stopped paying attention at some point to what exactly they were all doing.
My point is this: Brennan induced the polio symptoms and faked the test in order to reach his goal - he did what it took. As I said, House respects that. What Brennan did was extremely idiotic because it was so obvious (to House), and what he believes in is idiotic as well (as you said - vit C cures polio? yeah, right.), but that's not the point for House. Consider that House is the kind of person who left a patient that he thought had aplastic anemia lying convulsing in the snow just to prove that he was right.
House really couldn't care less about whether or not some treatment was harmful, as long as it reaches its goal. That's why I said I thought what Brennan did was cool - I didn't mean the act in itself, but I did like how they handled it (the way I said it was sort of retarded, I give you that, lol). It underlined this particular trait in House's character - a brutal ruthlessness towards the well-being of an individual person if there's a bigger picture involved.
If you ask me, the reason why he told Foreman to call the cops was 1) he was of the opinion that Brennan was too stupid to decide which bigger picture justifies extreme courses of action, and 2) because he knew that if he didn't, Foreman would go running to Cuddy and they'd call the cops anyway, only that it would involve a lot more trouble for House.
I talked to wihluta over AIM about this this morning, and she doesn't agree with me either. She says House isn't that unethical. But I actually think he is. He has not yet given me any indication to think otherwise.
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My point is this: Brennan induced the polio symptoms and faked the test in order to reach his goal - he did what it took. As I said, House respects that. What Brennan did was extremely idiotic because it was so obvious (to House), and what he believes in is idiotic as well (as you said - vit C cures polio? yeah, right.), but that's not the point for House. Consider that House is the kind of person who left a patient that he thought had aplastic anemia lying convulsing in the snow just to prove that he was right.
House really couldn't care less about whether or not some treatment was harmful, as long as it reaches its goal. That's why I said I thought what Brennan did was cool - I didn't mean the act in itself, but I did like how they handled it (the way I said it was sort of retarded, I give you that, lol). It underlined this particular trait in House's character - a brutal ruthlessness towards the well-being of an individual person if there's a bigger picture involved.
If you ask me, the reason why he told Foreman to call the cops was 1) he was of the opinion that Brennan was too stupid to decide which bigger picture justifies extreme courses of action, and 2) because he knew that if he didn't, Foreman would go running to Cuddy and they'd call the cops anyway, only that it would involve a lot more trouble for House.
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