Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Lictor (ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE_at_online.fr)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:47:49 +0200

"Steve Harris sbharris@ROMAN9.netcom.com" <sbharris@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
message news:79cf0a8.0408271437.492111bc@posting.google.com...
> I've got some shocking news for you, you poor dear innocent things.
> The decision of what particular drug you take for your illness is in
> many cases a lot like the decision of what kind of food to eat, or car
> to drive.

I don't drive a car, as I can afford not to, thanks to a good public
transport policy.
The problem is that I can make my own decision. I don't need to be treated
by a kid by some ads that think they can try to bully me into buying their
drugs. The problem is that, if I lived in the USA, I would *pay* for these
ads with buying that drug. And if I compared how much you pay for your drug
and how much I do pay for the very same drug, I would say these ads are
worth around 90% of the price of the drug. Now, why would I want to pay that
much money for something that is not even helpfull in my decision process?
Actually, for something I have to actively eliminate during my decision
process...

> The food and the car can kill you also, if you choose"wrongly."

Yes, but that's my own decision. I'm not forced to buy a car - I actually
consciously decided not to. Likewise, I'm not forced to buy any kind of
food. Advertisements should plainly don't exist. I mean, they provide no
information to help me with taking a decision. Why should I pay for them
then? When you advertise, you are actually *forcing* me to buy a service
(the "information" on the ads) I have no desire for, because don't be fooled
and think that you're not the one paying for these ads in the end.
I never opted in to be subjected to ads, and I'm given no way to opt out
either. Yet, I'm forced to pay the cost of ads with any product I buy. This
is a form of forced sale, and that is illegal.

> But that's part of being an adult, n'est-ce pas vrai?
> Unless you are Canadian.

Being an adult doesn't mean being an American. It means being able to make
your own decisions, based on your own convictions. Not the ones of the
society you live in, or the official line of thinking, or what the party
told me to think. You should try that sometimes... But of course, Big
Brother is always right, and it's the rest of the world that is un-American
and doesn't like your "freedom of thinking"...

> And now, next tell me. I've heard that in the US, it is money
> interests that rule the government. And that this is not so in other
> countries, such as (for example) that utopia of Canada.

No, that's the case everywhere. The only difference is that the whole world,
except people like you, *knows* that. So, we can try to act against it,
instead of believing blindly what Big Brother tells us.

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