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by tsol 4y ago
>People already volunteer to participate in clinical trials, For medications they need. But to one is going to want to test the next generation of antihistamines, for example, when there's a safe alternative with a few side effects.
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We want to damage ourselves by sanctioning others? You said that taking others wealth makes people lose trust in you and therefore hurts yourself. So I don't see why we would do that on purpose.
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>Please re-read my original comment. In particular, the 92% bit Better than nothing. >Are you suggesting testing on humans? Clearly that's the only way to clear those "surprises". No, I'm just saying a full body wi
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by tsol 4y ago
But it literally isn't here. We need live organisms to test drugs, we can't do it all on computer chips and disconnected cells
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So not poor people, but desperate people? That's just a different sort of problematic
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The problem with consent is it can easily be pressured. The only people that will consent to being tested on are people that are really desperate. I mean by that logic instead of testing on monkeys, we should test on hungry third world chil
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>Feminism and equality means giving a voice to those who cannot be heard - women, minorities, LGBTQ, and yes, primates and other animals. Just want to point out something I've noticed. Everyone has a different idea of what exactly f
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by tsol 4y ago
>There isn't one rational reason why a human should be worth more than any other animal. Simple-- because the one pondering it is a human. Expecting humans not to have a bias for their own species is like expecting a lion to choose
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The problem is you and I don't wanna test potentially dangerous drugs, even for lots of money as we have other choices for an income. Most of the people willing to test drugs will be desperate, poor people who need to feed their famili
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That, or its tested on humans instead. Neither seem like they'd actually be more ethical in the end.
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None of those are capable of testing for side effects and negative outcomes as well as testing the drug on a real creature. At the end of the day those all have only limited use. If you want to be able to give the drug to people without any
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by tsol 4y ago
No NootropicsDepot? Darn
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>There isn't a physical problem with taking wealth away from people, that part is very easy to execute. The problem is the 2nd order effects where it will turn into an unfair confiscation and do substantial damage to the ability of
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Teleportation, curing all disease, bringing the dead back to life.
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The question isn't whether they can think, it's if they can feel
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Where is the paper proving that conciousness is material in origin?
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Yes, they generally aren't great for learning new material in depth. But they are great for small refreshers, or just for some probing questions during complex times. They provoke thought and come in a short and to the point format. Th
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And there isn't a massive amount of heat loss with that? It's a cool idea, what surprises me is that it actually works
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>Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have grea
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Yeah but people are free to be delusional if they want to, doesn't make it legal to scam them
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I mean fraud is fraud even if there's "no harm done". I don't particularly care for this industry but if it exists it should be run legally
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>in the greater picture of overpopulation Source that we are overpopulated? We can shrink the population and still pollute irresponsibly. In the past when the population was smaller we certainly managed to ruin plenty. And we aren't
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>One might conjecture that if society hasn't determined prostitution to be universally bad and banning it everywhere, then the same thing wouldn't happen to porn. These two things are hugely different. Kids can and do regularly
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by tsol 4y ago
I like the idea, but how long does this take you? In a treadmill in an hour I usually end up around 3 miles
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>Make it possible for young people to actually engage with democracy again. Is this really that much more difficult now than in the past? I would think it'd be easier now given that information is easier to obtain and workers rights
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>I don't understand this ritual where we blame corporations for giving us what we tell them we want. It's hard to convince people to take responsibility when they cherish their freedom more than anything. We emphasize freedom s
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In some really basic way sure, but schizophrenia also causes definite excesses and deficiencies. They tend to be messy and bad at self care, they can see and hear things that aren't there, are subject to delusions, and can lack a norma
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by tsol 4y ago
This implies that I want to pay for an app to stay up to date. I do not. Obviously this would be more expensive, which is why I would only do that when I'm confident that I'll continue to use it. Unfortunately there usually isn&#x
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Okay now can they do they for all visits, for everyone now?
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You might be best off with edibles. There you can break down the dose and try incrementally higher doses. I find it's much easier to microdose with them

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