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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by lmkg on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:13AM (#16169046)
Key phrase:

  > for no good reason
For some individuals, there is substantial therapeutic benefit to reassignment surgery.
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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by north_east_dev on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:17AM (#16169085)
> If you choose to have your hand cut off because you think it would be awesome,

Does that cut mustard? Why not?

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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by da_chicken on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:25AM (#16169176)
That's begging the question. The point is, "Who decides what a good reason for this is?"

After all, it seems self-evident that nobody would seriously ask for these things if they themselves didn't believe they had a good reason, yes?

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