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Regarding 3., the reason it is being ignored is because it may dampen uptake of the vaccine by people who had already had and recovered from COVID. You probably were already aware …

I am not vaccinated either so playing Devil's advocate. I have not seen anything convincing regarding a risk of ADE for the vaccines as they are used in production. As far as I can…

I am not vaccinated. Firstly, I think it is great that effective vaccines have been able to get to market so quickly and in general lean towards the view that regulators and societ…

It means anything which violates the social norms and laws that undergird a society, one of which is suicide. Another might be illicit drug use, including psychedelics. Any solutio…

I would agree, hence the offensiveness of suicide to society in the large.

One option might be to not require a medical cause for assisted suicide. Instead it could be something that people have an absolute right to do for any reason or none, though I do …

The epithet of "chemical lobotomies" for antipsychotics is an appropriate analogy not just for the physical effects but also for the potential political uses.

It makes sense when you consider that the therapist is there to help you but only in a way that does not challenge society. You are right to not feel completely safe to discuss it,…

People did not live as long and would die of some cause such as illness long before they got to the age where they would develop things like dementia. Our situation with many peopl…

You're right, it is not really a solution specifically to this problem, 'alternative' would have been better a better choice of words. Certainly I think it would be a good thing if…

Yes, it's unfortunate. The taboos (cultural or otherwise) and personal hang ups that people have surrounding death and dying prevent people from acting before it's too late. Ideall…

I would definitely expect to read such an exposé and certainly there would be cases of people pressured into assisted suicide who otherwise would not want it. There is no good solu…

Suicide is offensive to society and many individuals on a deep level, especially of people who do not have a "good reason" (such as a terminal illness). While it may have progresse…

I'm not aware of any that do not have horrible side effects. That is a value judgement I perhaps arrogantly think most people who have taken or been forced to take them (including …

The solution in my opinion to this problem is to permit euthanasia and for assisted suicide to become culturally accepted as an alternative to a drawn out death of dementia in a ca…

Antipsychotics have horrific side effects but are useful in institutional settings to make residents/patients/inmates easier to manage - psychiatry is the tool used to legitimize d…

What probability do you give to the virus having escaped from a lab? If you were confident that this was not the case and that a proper investigation would show this, would you fee…

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