[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[John K Clark]

Jack Parkinson" <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com

> Bayer for instance. As well as inventing Aspirin, they also
> trademarked Heroin and sold it in several European countries

Heroin was developed because it was though that it was less addictive than
cocaine, it turned out that Bayer was wrong about that. Apparently drug
development 100 years ago was not was not quite as good as it is today, what
a surprise!

Nevertheless Heroine is still a very useful drug, it is often the only thing
that works for chronic pain, or it would be if the God Damn Fucking
government didn't stop these poor people from using it. The government's own
Department of Health and Human Services says 2/3 of terminal cancer patients
do not receive adequate pain medication because their doctors are afraid of
getting into trouble with God Damn Fucking Big Brother.

> Bayer avidly supported Hitler

Some companies did support Hitler, most did not at least during his early
rise to power. And I agree that no company played the hero and avidly
opposed Hitler, doing so would have been economic if not actual suicide, but
by no stretch of the imagination could you say business was the reason
Hitler came to power, his ability to put street mobs into a frenzy of hate
was.

   John K Clark