Bush was horrible, but Gore would have been worse

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I guess you could view guys like Stalin as objectively bad though; but when you think about it, western governments are pretty terrible too just from their indifference to a problem.
I bring it up a lot, but so many people die from the medical system because they aren't aware that they're the guinea pigs for the drugs they're taking. It's like clockwork; see a commercial for a new drug, six months later see a commercial for legal help to sue the makers of that drug for its unforseen consequences.
We're almost worse than guys like Josef Mengele of the SS, because we go to great lengths to cover up what we're actually doing.
The truth is, we don't know what a great many of drugs do. A pharmaceutical company essentially bribes the FDA to let it through, and the company crosses its fingers.

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A pharmaceutical company essentially bribes the FDA to let it through, and the company crosses its fingers.

i'll grant you this. the fda are crooks, so are the usda, doi and many other federal bodies
but when it comes down to it, the individuals responsible are just regular people, albeit with a higher-than-average inclination towards exploitation. just imagine how crooked and gamed the system would be if there was no regulation whatsoever...

the solution is to regulate the regulators, by filtering out special interests from the system of checks and balances