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Why can't people choose which prescription drugs they want to use?
by pb7 2y ago
Why can't people choose which prescription drugs they want to use?
- idiotsecant 2y agoThey should be able to.
- int_19h 2y agoThat would be a good way to reduce the efficiency of the remaining antibiotics very quickly. (But also, this kind of thing is exactly why the analogy doesn't even make sense.)
- idiotsecant 2y agoYou're right. This is a good reason to restrict this class of drugs. There is a finite usefulness, oh which each person who uses them consumes a tiny little bit.
- inopinatus 2y agoThey should not, because the adverse consequences are not limited to the individual.
- lynx97 2y agoYou can't be serious, right? I don't even want to imagine how many people would accidentally kill themselves or at least seriously damage their health if that was the status quo.
- idiotsecant 2y agoIs that my job to prevent? If someone wants to do the most damaging things possible, to intentionally kill themselves, should I feel entitled to stop it? People should be free to do stupid things, so long as they don't hurt others (the antibiotics example that another poster gave us a much stronger argument)
- dickersnoodle 2y agoThis sounds like a libertarian take, in the sense of "libertarians are like housecats - convinced of their own fierce independence but totally dependent on systems they neither control nor understand".
- idiotsecant 2y agoI'd be interested to hear your original thoughts on why my position is incorrect.
- dickersnoodle 2y agoThere are prescription drugs with side effects that cause real second-order societal problems (OxyCodone and related opioids are one the come to mind immediately). Amphetamines can cause psychotic behavior (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis for an accessible read). If the person using and abusing those drugs were isolated from others and couldn't harm them it would be one thing but they usually aren't.