Do people die from prescription opioids that often? I assumed that most of the deaths occur when people who are addicted lose access to legal sources and are forced to buy illegally (so risk of overdose and other complications is much higher)?
That is exactly why legal sources which are prescription exists, because it is easy to kill oneself by taking a illegal pill of unknown quality, such risks are not common with tobacco.
The regulation is a function of that, not how many people are killed by one item or other, it is merely just how easy is it die of OD with a poorly sourced drug, is why we have FDA and regulations etc is my point.
Interesting theory. I would guess that's rare and that more often than not, people are overdosing on prescriptions that they lied to obtain and then abused, or purchased on the street from someone who received the prescriptions but didn't need them.
I'm speaking from personal experiences, but of course, it's anecdotal.
Or maybe medieval people thought that it's easier to climb/carry stuff up if the stairs go clockwise (or some other mundane reasons)? Maybe architects just designed it that way because that's just how everyone builds castle staircases? Seems much more plausible to me (or at least as plausible..)
> I was certainly able to imagine that on my first tour of a fort when I was young.
Most people visiting medieval castles probably significantly overestimate the frequency of hand to hand combat that might had taken place there (almost never as far as we know).
Turning a 'violently suicidal' person into a zombie might seem like a success from the perspective of those who have to live with/take care of them/etc. Then again euthanasia should also be very effective if that's your only goal.
It’s interesting when people over-intellectualize to the extent that they literally disbelieve that people believe their own proclaimed religion.
The Christian doomsday mythologies are extremely clear and extremely broadly believed among a core US right wing power center, the Evangelicals.
I suppose it’s up to you if you’d like to believe that 1) Evangelicals don’t believe what they claim to believe or 2) they do believe Israel is critical to their own rising to an infinite utopia but they choose not to make policy decisions based on that belief.
> that people believe their own proclaimed religion
The comment above is talking about
> very popular in evangelical America that has to do with Israel being involved in the "end days" > strong Israeli state will hasten the rapture or some nonsense like that
That not a mainstream Christian view, in fact it's very fringe view and you don't have to 'over-intellectualize' (whatever that means) to realize that.
> I suppose it’s up to you if you’d like to believe that 1) Evangelicals don’t believe what they claim to believe
or option 3: don't believe what you claim they believe (the 'extremely broadly' bit anyway). There are plenty of more sensible religious, political and other reasons which explain widespread support for Israel.
> When Jesus returns, He will be ready for war (Revelation 19:11–16). The nations will be gathered to fight against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2) in what we call the battle of Armageddon. But that will be the day Jesus returns: “His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south” (verse 4). It will be a unique day in the history of the world: “On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness . . . a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light” (verses 6–7). God’s enemies will be defeated, and the Antichrist and the false prophet will be “thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur” (Revelation 19:20). Jesus will set up His kingdom, and “The Lord will be king over the whole earth” (Zechariah 14:9).
> In establishing His kingdom on earth, Jesus will first set up a judgment for those who are still alive after the tribulation and who are on the earth at the time of the second coming. This is referred to as the “judgment of the sheep and the goats” or “judgment of the nations” (Matthew 25:31–46). Those who survive this judgment will remain on earth and enjoy a time of peace and prosperity with Christ for 1,000 years (referred to as the millennium; see Revelation 20:4–6). Those who are found guilty in this judgment are cursed and consigned to “the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41). Satan is bound and forbidden to act during the millennium (Revelation 20:1–3).
