| Do you still buy food from for-profit farmers? Clothes? Housing? These are all essentials too, that are far less regulated than drug production, and with equal chance for harm or death. And there are plenty of "farmer-bro" libertarians out there, including in your local organic farmers market, out there just to seek profit and ask you to get rid of the minimal regulations on them and to go back to a system of just trusting your farmer and the transaction (back in the 2000s Michael Pollan's book profiled one guy of that sort). The people who are producing vaccines don't typically make tons of profit on them. Most are cheap, ubiquitous, except for some new ones that took a long time to develop. They are not huge money makers, and neither are organic beets, but they are business none the less so people make them. > But people who trust for-profit corps with their health are stupid marks. Are you a stupid mark for trusting Whole Foods. A huge for-profit company, for not making them sick? Are you a stupid mark for trusting the regulatory system that ensures safety? There's so much basic wrongness going on here that shows that you have just bought anti-vaxxer nonsense, hook like and sinker. How much good and how much harm has happened because you, as a "stupid mark," trusted for-profit healthcare companies with MMR? Why that one and not others? Too mcubprofit in other vaccines? Too much "risk"? You say that you are not an anti-vaxxer yet you perpetuate exactly the same flawed lies that they tell themselves in order to justify endangering their own children and others' health. It's a weird contradiction. (And for the record, I'm anti-libertarian, but I will still buy from the farmers market, not because I accept their ideology, or because I want to give them profits, but because I trust the rest of the system. I can transact with someone without adopting their ideology.) |
You have not done your research.
>> Are you a stupid mark for trusting the regulatory system that ensures safety?
Why do you assume I trust them? I damn sure didn't say it.
In theory gov't would regulate pharma corps. How's that working out for the opioids?
You should read Dunning & Kruger, you're not in the group you think you are, and I know which group you're in.
Then you should read my post again, this time for comprehension.