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Drake Tungsten
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Knee deep in alien womyn...
Oct 2001
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How about we just admite that pharmacists have a job to fill all perscriptions doctor's send them? |
I won't, because they don't. The owner of a pharmacy can stock whatever products they want. If they don't want to sell birth control or the morning after pill, that's their choice.
Last edited by Drake Tungsten on 29-03-2005 at 07:38
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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i dont see how capital punishement isnt murder
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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i dont think any of us are in a place to judge that innocence though.
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:29
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Isn't this on the wrong track? Pharmacies are left up to private markets to serve the public good, not because of the "moral rights of pharmacists.
Markets work when businesses supply things that people need and which are legal. If they stop doing this, then it is time for the state to intervene to ensure supply -- either by regulation or by replacing private businesses with public utilities.
This is a crushingly obvious feature of our society. It has absolutely nothing to do with individual rights, and everything to do with tuning economic relationships to maximize efficiency and make sure that people get what they need.
Generally, markets work well enough so that people who wish to refrain from supplying certain legal items may do so (for example: the corner store I worked in part time did not stock pornographic magazines). The competitive mechanism is supposed to ensure that people who want Playboy can buy it at another store. It doesn't always work, but it works quite well.
On the other hand the costs of entry to the competition sometimes mean that one local store can exercise a regional monopoly. In this case it is the government's job to step in and make sure that the monopoly does not effect the delivery of legal goods to those who want them.
In the case of pharmaceuticals we aren't dealing with something trivial like one man's masturbatory aid, but with things that are often vital to people's health. The state has the right to compel pharmacists to offer legal items for sale if it is not feasible for people to get them anywhere else.
If you don't like this, don't become a pharmacist. The community and the state allow you the right to go into business and offer various protections to your economic activities because you provide a service that people need. If you stop providing that service, then the government has the right to intervene.
It's just the reverse of privatization or deregulation. The arguments in those cases are that private ownership or lesser regulation will increase the efficiency of service delivery, and sometimes they are right. On the other hand it runs both ways, sometimes changes in the economy mean it is more efficient for the state to deliver a certain good or that more regulations will improve matters.
Economic rights are part of the social contract, and that contract can be revised when one party stops fulfilling its obligations. There's a simple answer for people who don't want to dispense contraceptives: don't become a pharmacist. That's the same as a Hindu deciding not to work at McDonalds.
When your individual business decisions start to impact the health of the community, it is time that the state intervened on its behalf.
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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bk doesnt care about definitions really. as soon as that little spermy is in the egg its a life.
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