Yes, but as I said, I haven't been *denied* any pharaceuticals, thus, I am free in that regard as well as in others.
You seem to be headed towards a very old, long-since disproven argument, so let's get it out in the open so that the temptation to hide behind it subsides.
To wit: you can disingenuously say that you aren't free to drive anywhere that you want because legally, you are forbidden from driving down the wrong way on a 1 way street, but in reality, you can get where ever you want to go by simply following the rules.
You see, having to follow rules does NOT ipso facto mean that you aren't free. Anarchy is not freedom, but rather anarchy binds everyone to the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak as they see fit.
Yes, but as I said, I haven't been *denied* any pharaceuticals, thus, I am free in that regard as well as in others.
From
FDAReview.org:
Deaths owing to drug lag have been numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Wardell (1978a) estimated that practolol, a drug in the beta-blocking family, could save ten thousand lives a year if allowed in the United States. Although the FDA allowed a first beta-blocker, propranolol, in 1968, three years after that drug had been available in Europe, it waited until 1978 to allow the use of propranolol for the treatment of hypertension and angina pectoris, its most important indications. Despite clinical evidence as early as 1974, only in 1981 did the FDA allow a second beta-blocker, timolo, for prevention of a second heart attack. The agency's withholding of beta-blockers was alone responsible for probably tens of thousands of deaths (on this general issue see Gieringer 1985; Kazman 1990).
Oh, but since they've never personally denied
you a drug there is no problem.
To wit: you can disingenuously say that you aren't free to drive anywhere that you want because legally, you are forbidden from driving down the wrong way on a 1 way street, but in reality, you can get where ever you want to go by simply following the rules.
I don't believe I've ever seen a more perfect definition of Socialism.
You can do what ever you like, as long as you follow the government's rules.
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