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It strikes me as incredibly naïve to think that we've just stumbled into an absolute cure for addiction, no caveats. That's second coming level of world change
by from-nibly 2y ago
It strikes me as incredibly naïve to think that we've just stumbled into an absolute cure for addiction, no caveats. That's second coming level of world change from "just take this drug once a day". Being cautious about <insert new thing> is not hatred towards humans.
- davedx 2y agoYeah, isn’t that how the (most recent) opioid epidemic got started - a pharma company telling everyone their new opioid was way less addictive - almost a sort of miracle cure?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoSure, but it’s also how antibiotics started, and that time it turned out that the miracle was real. It’s not something we can presumptively rule out.
- from-nibly 2y agoBeing cautious isn't presumptively ruling it out.
- phil21 2y agoThe difference here is everyone involved in the opioid epidemic knew opioids were addictive. They just enjoyed the CYA aspect of it. It’s like sexual harassment training. Literally no one needs to be “educated” that sexually harassing your coworkers is bad. It’s done to cover the companies ass and for no other reason. The drug companies offered that cover and the rest of the establishment knowingly used it to cover their bad actions. No doctor prescribing hydrocodone thought it was a non-addictive substance. Perhaps there will be some severe second order long term side effects with GLP-1 drugs. Time will tell, but considering we are nearly 20 years in on these and on 4th and 5th generation therapies I suspect we would have had a small hint of those by now. I’m extremely cautiously optimistic about these drugs. They seem to be an antidote to the poison that is the modern western lifestyle.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThat's a different argument completely. The comment I responded to was an argument that assumed that the drug was a cure, no caveats.