Posted by Dinah on May 27, 2013, at 12:21:57
In reply to Lou's reply- » Dinah, posted by Lou Pilder on May 27, 2013, at 12:06:04
Oh wait. I think I see.
Are you saying that my goals can be achieved at the same time your goals are? In that you are giving people additional information to help them make decisions?
I suppose that's a valid enough point, although I have reservations.
Do you think the *way* you disseminate that information could increase or decrease the chances of fostering a supportive community?
For example, would it be fostering a supportive community for the free exchange of information to continually suggest that the use of medications will lead death, or the user becoming a mass murderer? Would the use of statistics help the free exchange of information? For example, "controlled studies have shown that suicides increased xxx% over placebo" or "xxx in xxxxx uses of the medication have led to incidents of mass murder" or "the mass murderers make up x% of the population as a whole, and x% of the population taking this medication".
Would it be compatible to your mission to say that people should have the right to say they do or do not want to be be the subject of a ministry to keep them from the shackles of drugs in response to their own posts?
It wouldn't harm your ministry to nonposters if you put your warnings in separate threads. And it won't help your ministry any to preach to the unwilling. In fact, doing the latter is counterproductive to my goal - and in my opinion to your own as well.
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