Arthritis pill – February 4, 1992

I’m not sure if I would want it to be released to the public.  I would want it to be released because it would do a lot of suffering people a miracle, but I’d have to consider if my mom was in that one percent that it would be fatal to. In one way, I’d say that it was their choice, but I don’t think any pharmaceutical company would ever make it, because of the lawsuits they know they would face. If they did, testing should be done to determine why it had the bad effect on people and who those people would be. I don’t think I could, in a clear conscience, be the person to make a decision like that. People like that are playing God, and that is not their place. No single person or even a group of people should have the right to decide if human lives, other than their own, should be risked. What would you do, since we’re on the subject? I’d really like to know your views on this. (Note in the margin from the teacher: I would be afraid of that 1%. What if it were MY mother? I wouldn’t release it.)