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To: Little Joe who wrote (21468)	7/31/2012 5:03:36 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 85487

In general yes, I agree with those items, though you have formulated it in loaded ways. Here are a couple of examples to clarify it: By definition, a doctor may not inject a person with illegal drugs. What you may have wanted to say, is can a doctor and his patient agree to use FDA unapproved drugs. The answer is yes, conditioned to "informed" and "free will." So the question then becomes how informed the patient can be of the consequences of using an experimental drug and what protection does the public have against fraudulent manipulation of desperate patients by opportunistic snake oil salesmen. If you can resolve that issue, then I have no problem with use of unapproved drugs. The above covers my point regarding informed consensus. Now let's move on to "free will" part of the condition. The choices must be made as willingly as possible and it is the society that sets the norm on those. For example, you cannot realistically say that a young girl willingly chose between nightly beatings by her dad or being shun by her society and becoming the 8th wife of a 50 year old. That is not really a free will. On the other hand, if a mature married woman who cannot have any children wants to consent that her husband may have a second wife and the other woman is equally mature and informed, then I don't see anything wrong with it. The minimum wage issue is similar, though less obvious (think of the abuses that could arise during a depression type era rather than during boom times). But if it makes it easier for you to swallow, you can think of minimum wage as a tax credit that is directly given to the workers from the higher taxes that government could have collected from low-balling employers ;)