[syshum]

So you reject the idea of Informed Consent? Hell why stop at right to try let simply take away all medical choices for everyone, If the doctor says something you will be compelled to do it, Second Opinion, no way, clearly the doctor is the professional and you as a individual are too stupid to make your own choices for your life

[smt88]

How is informed consent possible when the information required is a deep understanding of both medicine and statistics?

[syshum]

Wow... I really thought I would die before humanity would embrace a dystopian technocracy where all Self Agency is removed completely from the individual...

[smt88]

That's a very extreme reading of my implication that laypeople aren't able to just take a crash course in a particular disease or drug and make a well-informed decision.

Do you disagree with all individual restrictions? Should we eliminate the concept of prescription drugs, so that anyone can go buy Adderall or Accutane without a doctor's approval?

[syshum]

>>Do you disagree with all individual restrictions? Should we eliminate the concept of prescription drugs, so that anyone can go buy Adderall or Accutane without a doctor's approval?

Yes, and Yes.

I believe all drugs should be legal, and OTC. I own my own body and what I choose to consume is none of anyone business but my own.

The idea that you should have any say at all as to what chemicals I consume is absurd to me.

Do you support say making it illegal for a person to buy their own brakes for their car? Instead forcing people only to have their cars repaired by government certified mechanics?

It seems odd to me that we allow anyone to work on a car, something that could actually endanger others, yet we severally restrict what people can do to themselves

I am 100% for complete and total individual freedom provided that freedom is not directly harming OTHER PEOPLE, I am opposed to any restrictions upon my individual liberty which includes my liberty to harm myself up to and including suicide

[beat]

You COULD have argued against my point without reducto absurdum. But you didn't.