| > I'm not rushing for it even though I think it works Because of the side effects, right? > - yet people aren't rushing for healthy diets and exercise, are they? Because that implies a lifestyle change. I think the assumption here is that this would be a treatment or a pill. > And I think your claim is wrong; a lot of people pop vitamin supplements like candy expecting that they are harmless and would be surprised to find they are capable of causing harm; I don't think that most people will be surprised to hear that taking any pill can have negative effects, though I do think that lots of people may be surprised by the dose at which those effects are seen, but there will always be outliers, of course, who may think that eating an entire carton of gummy vitamins is no big deal. But, I don't think that is really relevant, although I'm not sure what point you're trying to make still. I think you're trying to say that some people won't rush to take this pill because it may have unintended side effects? |
I'm countering the claim "even naysayers will want this as soon as it works" with evidence that people don't want things which work - for multiple reasons, viz. known side effects, unknown/long term side effects, your 'implying a lifestyle change', not wanting to be early adopters, for examples we have covered, along with people who don't want to 'play God', don't approve of medical treatments, don't want 200 years of working life (as mentioned in the comments elsewhere on this thread).