• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    Many doctors dismiss a significant amount of pain complaints in general because of the small minority of drug abusers seeking pain meds.

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      How are we supposed to punish every single member of the tiny minority who abuse the system if we’re not allowed unlimited collateral damage with impunity?

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          It definitely didn’t when it put people in internment camps. I know people alive today who have defended that decision. That’s a small sample size, but it does support your argument.

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        It’s the mass suffering of the “lessers“ who can’t afford doctors who will just give them whatever drug they ask for. These people actually believe that being unsuccessful, or even slightly less fortunate, is some kind of moral failing, and, therefore, you deserve your fate.

        Ghouls

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            It’s an ideology that is certainly popular here in the United States (although, far from the majority sociopolitical orientation), but it’s hardly unique to here, nor did it originate here. Humans have been both greedy and exploitative of other humans for our entire history. This isn’t an excuse, just sayin…

            Edit: you know, I think a good example of American exceptionalism in practice is the rather foolish belief that once any group here has finally won any civil rights that we will just continue to have them forever without any work or effort in order to maintain or keep them.

            Functional democracy are hard work. But they’re worth it.

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      In this case it’s a remnant of the history of gynecology being using slave women as unwilling test subjects and dismissing all objections from them

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      I have a shoulder injury. I’m down to 6 pain pills and i’m so anxious about requesting more.

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        fucking shoulders… I had a rotator cuff that was hell for 6 years. I’m perfectly fine now, but I refuse to reach behind and to the right in the car to this day.