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semihero_pietro) wrote2006-12-12 12:48 pm
semihero_pietro) wrote2006-12-12 12:48 pm
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TM: If you could change one aspect of your society
I think that right now, the world is caught in a drug happy mindset. Everything has a pharmesidical cure these days. Can't sleep? Take this pill. Depressed? There's a pill. Want a more active "personal" life... there's a whole line of medications you can take there.
Now grant it, there are some real medical conditions that exist out there where medication is needed. I'm not saying that all pills are bad. But it just seems that these days, people are getting to think that everything can be solved with two pills every 4-6 hours.
And on top of that, there's always the talk of the mutant cure. Finding that one little genetic tick that is in common with each and every mutant, and making some kind of pill to block it, and make the mutants "normal" again. Millions of dollars are spent in research every year to try and figure this out.
I could give them the answer. There is no cure. It's the way we are, and that's how it's going to be. Perhaps if they took that money from the research and put it into education to the masses, there wouldn't be a problem.
But that's too hard. It's just easier to take a pill and forget the problem. Real fixes aren't worth the effort, even if in the end, they will help more.
Now grant it, there are some real medical conditions that exist out there where medication is needed. I'm not saying that all pills are bad. But it just seems that these days, people are getting to think that everything can be solved with two pills every 4-6 hours.
And on top of that, there's always the talk of the mutant cure. Finding that one little genetic tick that is in common with each and every mutant, and making some kind of pill to block it, and make the mutants "normal" again. Millions of dollars are spent in research every year to try and figure this out.
I could give them the answer. There is no cure. It's the way we are, and that's how it's going to be. Perhaps if they took that money from the research and put it into education to the masses, there wouldn't be a problem.
But that's too hard. It's just easier to take a pill and forget the problem. Real fixes aren't worth the effort, even if in the end, they will help more.