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Prescription drugs are legitimately scary though. As are cars and surgeries. I'd argue that too many people are numb to these risks. Popping a pill should be s
by hrktb 6y ago
Prescription drugs are legitimately scary though. As are cars and surgeries.
I'd argue that too many people are numb to these risks. Popping a pill should be seen as scary. Driving two blocks down is making a life/death risk calculation. Sure some people will take that risk every day, dozen of times a day, without nothing happening.
But we should still acknowledge there is a risk, and I'd argue it should be reduced to whatever level makes sense for the situation and not shrug it away as "it's just life"
PS: this is mostly a reaction to "we would have to shut down life as we know it".
My point "life as we know it" shouldn't be the status quo.
- hutzlibu 6y agoNo, it shouldn't be scary to take a pill or drive to work. It should be well thought of, but once you decided, there should be no fear, otherwise you will really have a high chance of accident/sickness, as constant fear raises your stress level till the point of mental and physical breakdown.
- hrktb 6y agoI think you see fear as paralysing and handicapping while I see it as a safeguard against complacency and carelessness. It's a spectrum, we could agree there can be healthy amounts. While I get you point about mental and physical breakdown, paracetamol overdose [0] for instance is a fairly common thing. Too many people see it at the same level as coffee or a redbull, when it's something else altogether. Same for people abusing antibiotics, whith far reaching consequences going way beyond a single person's stress level. For driving, sure too much fear depletes mental resources. But currently we are around 1.3 billion people just for the death count each year, and the majority of accidents occur on short daily trips on well know roads, from lack of focus and stress. [0] https://www.nps.org.au/news/paracetamol-overdoses-rise https://www.nps.org.au/news/paracetamol-overdoses-rise [1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffic-injuries https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...