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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Indeed, so long as you follow our society's rules, you are free to go anywhere and do anything.
What you want is a society that has NO RULES. That society is called Anarchy, and it binds everyone that it touches to the law of the jungle rather than to the polite rules of civilization.
My point to you was that you are free, or at least, that I am free to do what I want.
In contrast, you want to claim that you aren't free because you can't do those things in the *manner* that you want.
You want your drugs without prescriptions, for instance. You want your guns on planes that you don't even own, for another.
So to you, if you aren't free to drive the wrong way down a 1 way street, then you aren't "free", but to me, so long as I can get to everywhere that I want to drive by simply following rules, then I am free.
That's an enormous difference in perspective (and it is a difference that separates the 1% of society's radicals from the 99% mainstream).