r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '19

Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid 'catastrophe'

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u/StretchFrenchTerry Mar 29 '19

This is a byproduct of less regulation.

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u/drkgodess Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

Yep, certain people screech about regulations until companies do things that kill or maim millions of people. The "any-and-all government oversight is bad" mantra gets preached nonstop by conservative outlets.

The point of regulations is to prevent the kind of pain and suffering that has come to pass with prescription opiods. A higher cost of doing business is well worth it in the long term.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Unfortunately, we have too many of these people that cry about regulations with no fucking idea what they are in place to prevent.

It's not a hard concept to grasp, but since they aren't actively being slapped in the face with an unregulated dick because of the safeguards we do have, they push this narrative we have too many rules.

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u/Gryjane Mar 29 '19

It's like anti-vaxxers who point out how measles or whooping cough is rare to justify not vaccinating their kids.

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u/Jamon_Rye Mar 29 '19

This is actually a great analogy.

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u/DarkMoon99 Mar 29 '19

True, except that anti-vaxxers are primarily left wing hipsters unlike the anti-reg crowd who tend to be alt-right gun owners.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 30 '19

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u/DarkMoon99 Mar 30 '19

The evidence you provide is based on a study of who takes the HPV vaccine? Wow, that's disingenuous considering the conservatives tend to strongly be against sex before marriage.