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by nmeofthestate 3511 days ago
The ablity to sterilise people with a pill/injection is a fairly scary prospect.
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Why? Having the means to do so is very very different from forcing it upon someone. Means to kill someone else are readily available to everyone -- kitchen knives, over the counter drugs -- but simply their availability isn't that scary.
Slip it into someone's pills at a mental hospital say. Sweden was doing stuff like that up until the 1970s.
What were they giving to the patients? Was the existence of what they were giving to those patients a scary thing just for existing - coz that's the question here.
The ease with which something can be done makes a huge difference and it's disingenuous to argue otherwise.
a car can easily kill someone. As can millions of other things. It's ridiculous to suggest that that automatically makes their existence scary.

Is the existence of injectable insulin scary just because someone could kill someone just by injecting them with it?

Have a read of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sw...

1975 isn't that long ago. If this technology is cheap and available, it will be abused.

Not really, tens of millions would line up for it; it'd be vastly better than surgery and plenty of pills can kill people now but we deal with that just fine and death is much scarier than sterilization. What you're doing there... it's called fear mongering. If you're really scared of something like that, you probably have some issues you need to resolve because that's a silly thing to be afraid of.