"down" is "just" a name for the direction everything falls.
Why do things fall? What happened to "a body at rest stays at rest"?
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While that may contribute to the slipperiness of ice in certain circumstances, we know that ice is still slippery even when the compressive force is unable to melt the ice, even a thin layer. For example, we've studied ice at temperatures and pressures where liquid water doesn't form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20zyW0qoSTE
I don't remember the details exactly, but in the (most common) crystalline arrangements of H20, at the surface/edge of ice the individual molecules don't have all their crystalline "partners", so they can still shift around to varying degrees, which makes ice slippery even when none of it can / does melt--all of the molecules are part of at least one crystal.
So we should ban every[thing that can] be used to harm oneself?
No. They should all be legal to acquire and self-administer.
Do you also think the FDA should stop having standards for food and drugs?
No. They enforce accuracy of labeling, which is important for people to make informed (consent) decisions about what they self-administer. They should stop making it illegal for a willing recipient to acquire an accurately labeled substance and self-administrate said substance.
They are materials that can be much more dangerously self-administered. Anything less dangerous can't be justifiably ~~banned~~ restricted solely on the dangers of self-administration.
Bleach, ammonia, nicotine, and ethanol were the dangerous substances I mentioned earlier in the thread.
There is a difference between safety regulation and paternalism that I think you are failing to parse.
There is a fundamental right to bodily autonomy that you aren't valuing.
You can call it whatever you want, if you prevent a person from self-administering any substance, you are violating their human rights.
On top of that, many, many OTC substances are much more lethal than HRT, so the risks of HRT cannot be great enough to justify them not being available OTC.
Data is not the plural of anecdote. As has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, many countries have OTC HRT and do not have significantly higher morbidity or mortality rates associated with those materials. Your experiences, in the form you've shared them, are NOT citeable. So, we're still at "Citation Needed" stage.
I think that uneducated or gullible people deserve full bodily autonomy, even if that means bad results from their choices.
Certainly, educated and sophisticated people can also get bad results from their choices; I see no reason to deny them to anyone else.
I'm all for a person educating themselves before making a decision to ingest some material, but the final decision MUST BE THEIRS, and not someone else's.
Yes, the decisions are often difficult, and I personally know I'm an idiot with a bias NOT to ingest something. But, I refuse to deny someone else their freedom based my judgements, or even the judgements of "experts". I think there are a LOT of good reason to, so I will almost universally defer to an expert, but I refuse to DEMAND everyone else make that same decision.
Your model of “total bodily autonomy” with every medication being OTC would drastically worsen the Darwinian hell caused by medical misinformation.
Citation needed. ESPECIALLY around HRT.
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn't required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it's required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a "pedestrian horn button"; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)
Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are also biologically male
This is a lie. Wikipedia links to no fewer than 3 sources that confirm this is a lie. I will be blocking you.
"Those cheering fans have embraced Khelif throughout her run in Paris even as she faced an extraordinary amount of scrutiny from world leaders, major celebrities and others who have questioned her eligibility or falsely claimed she was a man." -- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-fights-for-olympic-gold-after-enduring-abuse-fueled-by-misinformation
'The participation of Algeria's Khelif and Taiwan's Lin has proved controversial given they were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships.
"Let's be very clear, we are talking about women's boxing," said Bach at Saturday's daily IOC briefing.
"We have two boxers who are born as a woman, who have been raised as a woman, who have a passport as a woman and who have competed for many years as a woman.
"This is the clear definition of a woman. There was never any doubt about them being a woman."' -- https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c28e88jdprno
'Khelif and a second boxer, Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, fell foul of IBA eligibility rules [...].
[...] a March 2023 IBA board meeting stated that "the athletes do not meet one of the eligibility criteria", without stating which one.' -- https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/who-is-algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-2024-08-03/
In my worldview, the drugs would not have a gatekeeper. They would in available OTC. You should not have your "ethical autonomy" compromised at all. (And yes, it does count for nothing compared to bodily autonomy.)
If your reason (for not providing the drugs) was only protecting yourself or others from State-backed violence, it could be justified. But, you claimed you would do it because you know better how to manage a patient's body than themselves.
I think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that's a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to "things" in general) force and saying why it exists.