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> [doctors] insist they know better.

Because they probably do.

Pain is a stimuli people will do a lot to avoid. But pain also exists for a reason. You generally can't trust people in pain to self medicate.

Evolution did not give humans the ability to feel pain just to fuck with them.

Pain prevents you from unnecessarily straining damaged body parts, keeping you from harming yourself further and making your condition worse.

On painkillers you might hurt yourself doing something as simple as walking up a set of stairs, just because you didn't notice you placed your foot badly.



Spoken exactly like somebody who has never suffered from chronic, debilitating, relentless pain.


Instead of textbook logical fallacies would you care to provide any real arguments to support your position that people should essentially be allowed to self-prescribe painkillers? Or at least try to engage me on the points I made?




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