this brings up a really good question though - not that men are willing to go through this kind of risk to have a normal sex life - but how much testing should be required the fda before pills are marketed to a public? and where is the line drawn for what is to be considered an acceptable "side effect?" and why does medicare of all things, cover this and not pay the full amount of diabetic testing needles?
america's priorities seem really backwards sometimes- and you must see this up close every day with the work that you do. the programs that need the most funding are usually the least funded and the medicines people need the most are unavailable financially for them.
my question is: how do we find our middle ground as americans that care but can't force any change?
I honestly do not have a good answer for this one...
I think about it as this. If you keep yourself informed, share what you know about things being so fucked up when it is appropriate, and when you have time/energy/have taken care of your own basic needs THEN you can find a way to be active.
Changing dinnertable and party conversation from "go yankees" to "fda medicine review processes have some major flaws" helps.
Aw hell. I have to admit that finding a way to live within a culture that I happen to get pleasure from, while knowing that said culture is killing me and those around me....is a tad tough. It is worse with kids because I want them to enjoy life, but damned if the things that everyone else finds as normal are actually toxic and I want my kids to have none of it. Being an outsider is tough...but so is participating in the plague that we call patriotic and pleasurable.
My organic eating, non-violent, atheist kids can beat up your mcdonalds loving, bitchslapping, god fearing brats any day.
well maybe THAT is the key, honestly. maybe how we enact change is through instilling beliefs and ideals that are more morally correct and ethical in our kids; plant the future generations to make up for the ones we've already fucked up.
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Yes they are
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Besides, blind people get laid more because they dont know what they are sticking it into.. Soft and squishy.. all game!
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As long as the sex is good.
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america's priorities seem really backwards sometimes- and you must see this up close every day with the work that you do. the programs that need the most funding are usually the least funded and the medicines people need the most are unavailable financially for them.
my question is: how do we find our middle ground as americans that care but can't force any change?
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I think about it as this. If you keep yourself informed, share what you know about things being so fucked up when it is appropriate, and when you have time/energy/have taken care of your own basic needs THEN you can find a way to be active.
Changing dinnertable and party conversation from "go yankees" to "fda medicine review processes have some major flaws" helps.
Aw hell. I have to admit that finding a way to live within a culture that I happen to get pleasure from, while knowing that said culture is killing me and those around me....is a tad tough. It is worse with kids because I want them to enjoy life, but damned if the things that everyone else finds as normal are actually toxic and I want my kids to have none of it. Being an outsider is tough...but so is participating in the plague that we call patriotic and pleasurable.
My organic eating, non-violent, atheist kids can beat up your mcdonalds loving, bitchslapping, god fearing brats any day.
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well maybe THAT is the key, honestly. maybe how we enact change is through instilling beliefs and ideals that are more morally correct and ethical in our kids; plant the future generations to make up for the ones we've already fucked up.
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