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Originally Posted by lostalex

oh my cynical little soldier. i used to speak this way, many years ago.

you will one day see the world in a much broader light. and you will understand that we are no longer individuals in a system, we simply ARE a system. and you won't be sad about it anymore. The truth is we are just a species. individuality is for children. it's important to let children dream.

Oh I already understand it perfectly well, believe me, and I stopped being "sad" about it years ago... At this point I have little to zero concern for what the majority of the world's mindless plebs are willing to have done to themselves and their children.

But it also doesn't stop facts being facts, and that the US medical and pharmaceutical industries are in the business of causing deliberate low-level harm and willingly cause collateral damage in the pursuit of profit is just a fact. It's a problem in the UK too, with pharmaceutical kick-backs, but in the US its inherent to the entire system from the ground up. The ground-breaking treatments available in the US are available because US medical researchers are in the business of creating attractive - and expensive - products for a consumer market more motivated and willing to spend than any other; the severely and terminally ill.