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Biotech / Medical : Techniclone (TCLN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3121)	6/2/1999 10:23:00 AM
From: The Dodgy Ticker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3702

If people want to eat ephedrine [which I know nothing about] and it has adverse effects and kills some, then surely that is up to the people who do the eating. I don't see that the government should tell them what they can eat or not. Maurice, a problem I see in your argument here is that one cannot just take an action in this country which will have no consequences to anyone but himself. For example, there are many lawsuits ongoing involving people who "chose" to smoke, but who are now unhappy with the consequences of that decision, and so are demanding that the tobacco companies compensate them for their injuries. When people who smoke get sick, our health-care system treats them, and the costs of that treatment is borne by many people who chose not to smoke. When people "choose" to build buildings on our eastern and southern beaches, the the cost to repair the damage done to those buildings by hurricanes is borne, not just by the people who chose to build the buildings, but by many who chose not to do so. To recover the public costs of treatment of tobacco illnesses is why so many states have sued the tobacco companies. To summarize, if we are to do as you suggest and give each person the freedom to do any fool thing he wants to, then we must quit bailing him out for the consequences of his actions. I, frankly, don't know how to go about making this happen, so in lieu of that, I guess what our government is doing is about the best it can do. Regards, Bob