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by esspem 5907 days ago
Do you really want the market flooded with new software, whose effects aren't well understood?

You can find effective software despite almost no government regulation, why do you think it won't work for drugs? I'm sure a lot of private rating agencies evolve in the such free market of drugs.

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There's a lot of totally crappy software on the market. The key difference is that you can try a better application after getting burned by a bad one. Not necessarily so with drugs - they can do unrecoverable damage.
You can use only drugs approved by FDA, nothing would change for you in "no regulation" market.
I think this shift in policy would require an enormous cultural shift. Currently, our society mostly trusts the drugs available on our store shelves. A deregulated market would require consumers to be much more critical in order to continue to function.
software doesn't kill people
should i revise to iphones don't kill people?
Tell that to Toyota.