Comment by rusk
21 days ago
That’s an even stupider comparison than the antibiotics one.
Let’s dismantle what you did here that you think is so clever.
You took an absurd comparison of a tried and tested naturally occurring substance with a substance that public health professionals are trying to get us to use less of.
You took that, and replaced it with an even more far-fetched and even more generalised hypothetical.
At least, given your ignorance around antibiotics you might be forgiven for thinking it would be a good thing to give antibiotics for all. I mean if it’s good enough for your food supply it should be good enough for humans right? Ignore egg prices going through the roof cause your flock has no innate immune system.
So then you replace that reasonable sounding but stupid supposition and you replace it with “a word” that you pulled out of the air that sounds like it might be a thing and then wowed us with your abuse of glyphs™
You are nothing but a depressing waste of time and whoever is putting you up to this I’d suggest you go back to them with your cap in hand and admit you’re not up to it.
I enjoyed that. Thanks for the run-out.
>You took an absurd comparison of a tried and tested naturally occurring substance
It's ironic that you assert this, and then go on to claim that I'm ignorant, when you seem to be the ignorant one. Penicillin was originally derived from a mold and is one of the popular antibiotics out there, so it's arguably "tried and tested naturally occurring". The same is true of lithium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)
>with a substance that public health professionals are trying to get us to use less of.
Under the hypothetical of "if the Science™ said it was good", this would not be a problem. If you can't understand how hypotheticals work, I suggest you stop wasting my time.
You seem to be saying that because Lithium and Flouride are both naturally occurring minerals, that would make it okay to put Lithium in the water supply.
Please go on, the sun is out and I’m enjoying this.
>You seem to be saying that because Lithium and Flouride are both naturally occurring minerals, that would make it okay to put Lithium in the water supply.
1. If you do a quick skim of the comment section, you'll find no shortage of people unironically making such argument.
2. It might seem I'm making such claim if you're rushed or have reading comprehension issues, but if you read my comments more carefully you'd see I'm not making no such claims, only posing it as a hypothetical.
And, unlike penicillin, lithium doesn't cause resistant strains of bacteria to evolve. A solid win all around.
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