I thought about this a bit more today. It's also possible that his arm was hanging by a tiny string of flesh and was already %90 amputated to begin with, and the medics just finished the job.
If bones and vessels were both severed and all that happened was that a small string of tendon or nerve was hanging on by a thread, then I would say that the arm was already effectively fully amputated and the medic merely 'cut the chord' both figuratively and literally.
I can imagine so many different scenarios. If he was bleeding to death and the medics could not get to the source of the bleed without removing that last little bit of ligament or tendon... then I'd say they were justified in finishing the job and then the media spins it as "Medics cut off a man's arm!!!1". But then again, sometimes crush injuries like that are actually dangerous to fuck with because the very thing crushing them is
also the thing that is stopping the bleeding.
If he was trapped in a fire or something under the same scenario, then I think the medics
might have been justified. It's pretty much common sense, but they do explicitly teach us that life > limb.
The truth is that the level of detail in which this would have to be examined is probably 10-100 times more than we'd ever get from a 'media' source.
I summon
Synj
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