A religious group that believes all disease is God's handiwork and people sin when they try to undo it can grind all medicine to a halt. Everything has a side effect that harms someone, even penicillin which encourages sex since it allowed syphilis to be cured.
What is a complete human is the women carrying fetuses, they are human beings with bodily autonomy and the ability to feel and reason.
A fetus is very far from a complete human.
I'm not too worried if that group practices what they preach and forgo all modern medicine.
Also modern food engineering. Enjoy your easily preventable deaths, losers!
But none of them actually practice what they preach... they just pick and choose when it suits... That is the gospel truth, but I'll choose to interpret that as a metaphor...
The way you phrased it kind of dismisses the difference between bad and good though. On one side there are the Sacklers getting people hooked on what amounts to legal heroin, which evolves into an addition to illegal street heroin and really is a detriment to society (though society having caused that with changing prescription regimes is also very much to blame). On side of good is the pharmaceutical companies selling, no shit, cures for a specific type of cancer in a pill. One is trying to reduce their sentence from having done bad things; using their influence for their own selfish benefit, and the other is trying to make it so they can help people more - using their influence for the greater good. There's a distinction between the two that I can make out, anyway.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s lawless and unprecedented decision ordering the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion, poses an existential threat to the entire industry: If upheld, the order would allow any doctor to file a lawsuit compelling the FDA to revoke approval of any drug they dislike. If any such suit succeeds, a single, handpicked judge could overrule the FDA’s scientific determinations and issue a nationwide block on that medication. The drug need not have anything to do with reproductive health: vaccines, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones, statins, painkillers—all are vulnerable under Kacsmaryk’s decision.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 74.0 ms ] threadLiterally everything will kill a human in high enough concentrations.
So will nothing on a long enough time frame.
Limiting the "what is a complete human" inquiry to the realm of genetics is itself a philosophical concept.
Also modern food engineering. Enjoy your easily preventable deaths, losers!
But none of them actually practice what they preach... they just pick and choose when it suits... That is the gospel truth, but I'll choose to interpret that as a metaphor...
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s lawless and unprecedented decision ordering the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion, poses an existential threat to the entire industry: If upheld, the order would allow any doctor to file a lawsuit compelling the FDA to revoke approval of any drug they dislike. If any such suit succeeds, a single, handpicked judge could overrule the FDA’s scientific determinations and issue a nationwide block on that medication. The drug need not have anything to do with reproductive health: vaccines, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones, statins, painkillers—all are vulnerable under Kacsmaryk’s decision.
It's actually an interesting read.
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmojgodvr/...