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What is a society if not a collection of individuals?

You don't get to complain about antibiotic resistance if at the first sign of an issue you demand a bathing in random antibiotics, especially if you don't even know if you have a bacterial infection in the first place

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As long as the patient completes the course of antibiotics properly, taking antibiotics should not contribute to antibiotic resistance.

I don't think there is much solid science behind that claim.

Antibiotic resistance could just as easily first happen in the sewers and other places where there is a lowish concentration of antibiotics.

I don't think there is much solid science behind that claim.

You can't claim to protect society from anything without protecting individuals primarily. Society is not a herd in which you sacrifice an individual to save the rest.

Isn't putting a murderer in prison for life exactly that?

The prisoner would undoubtedly have a better life if not imprisoned. But society does better if they are imprisoned.

See also, placing limitations on political and economic power.

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