Problems
When you have one problem, you have to solve it.
When you have several problems, sometimes you can use them to solve each other.
Most pharmaceuticals are tested on animals before they’re tested on humans. Some people have ethical problems with this; I won’t judge you for your beliefs on this either way. Unquestionably, though, there are medical problems with this. Animals are not humans, by definition. Some drugs work the same on mice as on humans. Many don’t. And when testing moves to the human stage, side effects are often found which did not show up in the animal models.
Somewhat related to this, some drugs have different effects on different people. I’ve seen it myself, in which someone I knew had some condition and was getting worse and worse. The doctors went through the standard protocol: Try Drug A. Try Drug A with Supplement B. Try Drug C. Nothing was working. The patient then got a gene scan and about two minutes after receiving it the doc called and said that we need to go with Drug Z. A week later, the patient had visibly improved.
This applies to groups of people as well, ethnic groups and especially racial groups. Whole classes of drugs have different effects on blacks as on Whites, or don’t work at all. This is a real problem for doctors and patients. It’s a bigger problem because historically, most drug testing has mainly used White subjects. This is not because of racism but because almost all pharma research is conducted in majority-White nations and Whites are the most available test subjects. Attempts to solve the problem by actively recruiting black test subjects are doing little good because the blacks won’t step up and volunteer.
That doesn’t stop the complaining and accusations, of course. It’s a problem.
Another problem is the number of people who do not contribute to society. Even if we ignore the parasites who simply consume unearned resources, we have a problem with predators who not only harm individual victims but damage the structure of society. We can put them in prison but at best that converts them into parasites, requiring vast resources to keep them there while they contribute nothing.
Making that worse is the racial component. Blacks are grossly disproportionately represented in the prison population. Solving this problem will be challenging, if it can be solved at all, because of claims of racism, the positive feedback loop of dysfunctional urban culture, and innate human differences.
All three of these problems are challenging to solve. People have been working on each one for decades, with little progress.
But they’ve been looking at their problems in isolation.
We can completely eliminate animal testing by using only human subjects drafted from the prison system. About a third of US prison inmates are black, which should be plenty for researching the differences in drug effects. The parasites and predators will finally be contributing to the society they’ve been taking from. Everyone who matters wins!
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