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teklayesterday at 2:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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Hnrobert42yesterday at 2:48 AM

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

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TaurenHunteryesterday at 3:57 AM

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.

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