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Red tribe folks instinctively (and correctly) distrust the media, government lawyers, and regulatory bureaucracies.
...but then, when a result aligns with their prejudices, they trust what the media says about government lawyers working on behalf of regulatory bureaucracies. https://twitter.com/tonybalogna/status/1319116924656275457
Red tribe folks instinctively (and correctly) distrust the media, government lawyers, and regulatory bureaucracies.
...but then, when a result aligns with their prejudices, they trust what the media says about government lawyers working on behalf of regulatory bureaucracies. https://twitter.com/tonybalogna/status/1319116924656275457
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Pain is real. Hundreds of thousands, or millions of people experience crushing, horrific, chronic pain. It is often so bad that they are driven to suicide.
"Reformer" Puritan types have an instinctive dislike for pain management, and concentrate on the potential for abuse
Pain is real. Hundreds of thousands, or millions of people experience crushing, horrific, chronic pain. It is often so bad that they are driven to suicide.
"Reformer" Puritan types have an instinctive dislike for pain management, and concentrate on the potential for abuse
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...and abuse is real, and tragic, sure. But there are very real benefits to pain meds. Pain destroys life and destroys lives.
So we get, as we so often do, an entirely nonsensical "analysis" that looks at benefits, and not costs, or costs, and not benefits.
...and abuse is real, and tragic, sure. But there are very real benefits to pain meds. Pain destroys life and destroys lives.
So we get, as we so often do, an entirely nonsensical "analysis" that looks at benefits, and not costs, or costs, and not benefits.
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Red tribe folks are correct to use cost/benefit analysis to push back against "cost only" analysis in the gun control debate.
...but when it comes to pain meds, they adopt exactly the retarded stance blue tribes uses in gun control.
"An opioid is 500 times more likely >
Red tribe folks are correct to use cost/benefit analysis to push back against "cost only" analysis in the gun control debate.
...but when it comes to pain meds, they adopt exactly the retarded stance blue tribes uses in gun control.
"An opioid is 500 times more likely >
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...to be used in the commission of a robbery than in pain management!!11!". "The founders never envisioned military grade opioids!!!1!!"
...to be used in the commission of a robbery than in pain management!!11!". "The founders never envisioned military grade opioids!!!1!!"
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Bring up guns, or drinking, and red tribe will correctly point out that the world is a dangerous place, sometimes bad things happen, but the price of freedom is exactly that.
But somehow with opioids all that "adults can make their own decisions and accept risks" goes away
Bring up guns, or drinking, and red tribe will correctly point out that the world is a dangerous place, sometimes bad things happen, but the price of freedom is exactly that.
But somehow with opioids all that "adults can make their own decisions and accept risks" goes away
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Bastiat, I think, talked about the seen and the unseen" (or was it Coolidge?). If we ban oxy because we see all of the abuse, we will NOT see the new harms caused by the new policy. Opioid addicts show up in the news. Pain victims suffer alone, at home, unable to stand up
Bastiat, I think, talked about the seen and the unseen" (or was it Coolidge?). If we ban oxy because we see all of the abuse, we will NOT see the new harms caused by the new policy. Opioid addicts show up in the news. Pain victims suffer alone, at home, unable to stand up
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And getting back to this particular case - ok, so government lawyers, in a government courtroom, convicted a company of breaking laws.
What laws?
Are those laws just?
Are those laws constitutional?
And getting back to this particular case - ok, so government lawyers, in a government courtroom, convicted a company of breaking laws.
What laws?
Are those laws just?
Are those laws constitutional?
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This is the same government that raided a guitar manufacturer for legally importing fretboard wood, because - said the politically motivated USG bureaucracy - that wood was not illegal here, but was illegal in some other country (the other country disagreed).
This is the same government that raided a guitar manufacturer for legally importing fretboard wood, because - said the politically motivated USG bureaucracy - that wood was not illegal here, but was illegal in some other country (the other country disagreed).
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Did the pharma company get convicted?
No.
They settled out of court.
Does settlement imply actual guilt?
Hell no. Heck, pleading guilty to criminal charges does not, in a factual or moral sense, imply actual guilt.
It means that BATNA was such that settlement is better
Did the pharma company get convicted?
No.
They settled out of court.
Does settlement imply actual guilt?
Hell no. Heck, pleading guilty to criminal charges does not, in a factual or moral sense, imply actual guilt.
It means that BATNA was such that settlement is better
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If government bureaucrats- all of them individual agents, jockeying for career "wins" and advancement - approach a company and say "not only will we destroy this company, but we will broach the corporate veil and destroy you, individually", settlement EVEN IN THE FACE OF BS
If government bureaucrats- all of them individual agents, jockeying for career "wins" and advancement - approach a company and say "not only will we destroy this company, but we will broach the corporate veil and destroy you, individually", settlement EVEN IN THE FACE OF BS
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is a plausible strategy. I've got some personal experience of fighting Leviathan. Sometimes the right strategy is to swallow a manifestly unfair loss, an absolute illegal abuse of power, rather than roll the dice and be destroyed.
Settling implies nothing about the case.
is a plausible strategy. I've got some personal experience of fighting Leviathan. Sometimes the right strategy is to swallow a manifestly unfair loss, an absolute illegal abuse of power, rather than roll the dice and be destroyed.
Settling implies nothing about the case.
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No, Oxycontin - a time release drug - was even less addictive than Contin, the "all at once" drug that it replaced.
Funding journals and medical orgs is (a) legitimate, (b) standard practice, (c) a human right, as recognized under First Amendment https://twitter.com/nothinggate/status/1319248112200933376
No, Oxycontin - a time release drug - was even less addictive than Contin, the "all at once" drug that it replaced.
Funding journals and medical orgs is (a) legitimate, (b) standard practice, (c) a human right, as recognized under First Amendment https://twitter.com/nothinggate/status/1319248112200933376
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I don't see a problem being presented.
What's the problem? That some people abuse opioids? OK, well, some people abuse alcohol. Should we destroy the Brown–Forman Corporation for funding ads, concerts, and bookbooks to sell Jack Daniels ? https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319248713173393408
I don't see a problem being presented.
What's the problem? That some people abuse opioids? OK, well, some people abuse alcohol. Should we destroy the Brown–Forman Corporation for funding ads, concerts, and bookbooks to sell Jack Daniels ? https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319248713173393408
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The world is imperfect (and imperfectable). People are weak and prone to sin.
As conservatives, we know all of this.
And yet we still think that people have the right to drink, home-school, own guns, and drive motorcycles.
Why are opioids some magically different case?
The world is imperfect (and imperfectable). People are weak and prone to sin.
As conservatives, we know all of this.
And yet we still think that people have the right to drink, home-school, own guns, and drive motorcycles.
Why are opioids some magically different case?
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I'm an ancap. I believe that humans have rights to do whatever they want to themselves. I support the right of folks to drink whiskey for fun, take oxy for pain, and smoke crack cocaine to numb the pain of being a Biden. https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319249988615065600
I'm an ancap. I believe that humans have rights to do whatever they want to themselves. I support the right of folks to drink whiskey for fun, take oxy for pain, and smoke crack cocaine to numb the pain of being a Biden. https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319249988615065600
