Posted by Cam W. on April 29, 2000, at 11:09:16
In reply to Re: Internet Rx's busted, posted by Diane on April 29, 2000, at 10:12:19
Diane - I agree that we are too regulated society, but, if you wanted to do your own experimenting with drugs and mess up and need expensive medical treatment, should I , though my taxes, be obligated to try to heal you or should I stand back and say that you did this to yourself, now die an agonizing death.If you have a psychotic reaction to a medication you take on your own and "go postal" and decide to drive your car into as many pedestrians as possible, should I say that it was just the drug and these things happen, now go live you life as before.
If you murder my wife while high on crack, should I say that is the luck of the draw and I guess that I will have to look after my kids by myself while you go free and live your life as normally as before, perhaps killing other people along the way.
Unfortuanately we live as communal animals. We need laws to protect us from ourselves, as well as others who live in close proximity to us.. Sometimes the law makers go too far, but it is the only system we have. If you would like to change it, get a law or political science degree and try to change it the only real way possible, from the inside. Protesting doesn't work. You push people, they push back. This is just human nature.
Medications are over-regulated, but better to save one life, than let many people treat their own conditions. We should leave the treating of disease to the people who actually have learned about those diseases. Even if you are trained to treat disease, you should not treat your own, as you are not seeing your disease state from an unbiased viewpoint. Sometimes you cannot see that what you are doing is unrational (eg someone in a manic episode).
Yse, the government should interfere less, but where do you draw the line in the sand?
Just some of my thoughts - Cam W.
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