re: #23 RogueOne

I’m still not sure where you’re seeing a contradiction. Deciding if a person is qualified to be a doctor is a much easier process than a drug/stem cell trial.

What the fuck? How is it much easier?

Are you asking why they have the right to do one but not the other?

Yes, why you draw your arbitrary government line in the sand right there.

. In the case of drug studies it’s the same argument, their money, their approval, their rules. If they limited themselves to saying “you can decide on your own to have a procedure done that we haven’t approved but we’re not going to pay for it” then we’d be fine.

So why is one okay or not the other? You dodged it with the absolutely meaningless “because most of them accept federal money”. I mean, that wouldn’t cover the case of a doctor who didn’t accept federal money, or, rather a chiromant or whatever practicing ‘medicine’.

Most pharma companies— I’d bet all— also accept federal money, work hand-in-hand with public institutions. They all use the basic science research done at the state schools. Your arbitrary lawn is a very arbitrary one indeed. Both groups get federal money, and other advantages from the federal government.

So you’re not an anarchist. You’re just a completely inconsistent dude who makes ad-hoc decisions about whether something should be licensed by the government based on not-really-anything.

Great!