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It is a small step between enabling pill mills and helping herd undesirables into the showers. It truly is time that we demand better of corporations, and time to prosecute immoral and unethical management.

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another side to this is -- now that your eyes are open, you have a unique choice, to build social systems that thrive from mutual benefit and actually implementing those, and to bear witness to that. Profit is useful for force certainly, but not the only factor for making change over time. The ugly spectacle of Big Pharma here is not the only path forward.

The "undesirables" comment is a little harsh. You're taking about people who are foolish enough to trust that doctors have their best interests at heart, and get addicted.

No, I am not. You might recall the adage “Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.”

Here’s some light reading for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

The parallels should now be obvious.

Maybe I'm confused. Are you calling the addicts undesirables?

You're confused. They're not calling the addicts undesirables.

McKinley advising and assisting Purdue is not entirely unlike IBM advising and assisting Germany’s 1933 NSDAP government in its execution of a thorough ethnic census of its peoples, and then “facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punch cards for … military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.”

I see upon reading my OP that I did not identify IBM as a co-guilty party paralleling McKinley. My apologies.

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