Comments on: Should diet pills be banned?

By: LordTiberivs

LordTiberivs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:19:36 +0000

this is way off topic of diet pills, but I literally think companies who outsource jobs to China, or Mexico, or wherever should have to pay an equivalent amount of taxes to the government on those workers to help defray the cost of welfare on the American workers they should have hired in the first place.

By: LordTiberivs

LordTiberivs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:16:21 +0000

No thats the same situation as protecting the citizens. If large corporate America is literally stealing money from you the government should absoutely enact legislation that limits the amount they can blindly rob from you.

Unethical business practices harm people. I'm not making a stand on capping productivity, or stopping any business from making money. I'm not even saying there should be a maximum allowable profit during a quarter. But if American business' showed some loyalty to Americans then they'd be rewarded by their customers with more business.

By: misty

misty — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:34 +0000

anything that says wikipedia is not a good source of information…everybody knows this…just saying…i tend to see you use it often

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:32:37 +0000

Depends on the object of the ethics. If they are misrepresenting the item deliberately, that's a fraud or a breach of "contract".

But practices in terms of voluntarily selling something to others who voluntarily purchase it, doesn't strike me as important to govern over. Or even unethical.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:22:44 +0000

Okay, so if you put it that way, then there should be no laws whatsoever on unethical business practices?

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:20:21 +0000

No. It doesn't. It can protect citizens from each other, but not from themselves.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:19:17 +0000

Something is evaluated only using its costs to be a burden. What a surprise.

I have no qualm if there is a specific product or class of products which offer no benefits over competing products or offer significant costs over them as well. But if and when there are advantages, and they can be judged by individuals or objective research to be real benefits, you should not ban an entire class of products on the basis of a few which show themselves less capable.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:11:38 +0000

"Some anti-obesity drugs have severe and often life-threatening side effects. (See, for example, Fen-phen.) These side effects are often associated with their mechanism of action. In general, stimulants carry a risk of high blood pressure, faster heart rate, palpitations, closed-angle glaucoma, drug addiction, restlessness, agitation, and insomnia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-obesity_medicat…

This shouldn't be on the shelves.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:10:46 +0000

Yea, in some cases we have the right to be stupid. However, in certain cases, the government has the right to come in and protect the citizens.

By: Liberty

Liberty — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:36:25 +0000

If people want to pump chemicals into their bodies, who am I to stop them? I mean, if they really WANT all those side effects that come with those stupid pills, they can be my guests!

That's what makes this country great- the right to be stupid.