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To: DiogenesLamp

Thus, you believe that if a small percentage are affected negatively by a drug, then it should be removed from society. Congratulations, you just removed every modern drug in existence. Ever listen to ANY pharmaceutical commercial? More than half of the spoken words are warnings about bad side effects that some people might have. Dolt.


110 posted on 02/12/2015 8:00:47 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317
Thus, you believe that if a small percentage are affected negatively by a drug, then it should be removed from society.

It is not so simple as your statement indicates. I argue that for any society there is an acceptable rate of loss. A society that loses more than it's acceptable rate of loss is doomed to collapse.

The actual percentage is not a trivial point.

Congratulations, you just removed every modern drug in existence.

No I didn't, that's just your strawman talking. You are offering a false equivalence between losses from drugs by all causes, with no regard for cost vs benefit.

I dare say that some of those losses are from drugs that otherwise save people's lives, and so the cost versus benefit is worth it.

119 posted on 02/12/2015 8:25:34 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: Teacher317
Trying to reason with "Doggy Lump" is like trying to describe the color red to a cinder block. It's fun for the first few times he repeats you back to you, ending in that oh-I'm-so-very-clever hyperlink Smurf blue script.

Then it's just painfully boring.

Every one of his "arguments" ends with either the statement or the implication that he's faultlessly educated, while you are, at best, a mere pathetic peon undeserving of his preposterously profound pearls. I have chunks of steaming, self-absorbed skank-stank like him in my stool.

;^)

137 posted on 02/12/2015 8:51:00 AM PST by Gargantua ("...fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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