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Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists (lemmy.world)
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[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?

No, I didn't. Understanding why that is the case is the key to understanding this post.

You specifically said that it was threatening self-harm. That is not true.

You are now trying to move the goalposts. I will accept that as you understanding that what you said was not correct.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

If you are promoting antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body, is that not self harm? I sure think it is.

Not all self harm is cutting, starving, or suicide.

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

The reason why a pharmacists would care is more the fact that once the resistant bacteria gets out of your body and into the world it reduces the effectiveness of antibiotics for every human.

The push to get people to finish their courses of antibiotics is done to keep antibiotics effective for everyone.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah. So we agree that she's threatening self harm (minimum) to solicit a response from someone. Emotional manipulation.

I'm glad we managed to argue our way to what we already concluded from the start.

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

It's still not threatening self harm 🤣.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

As far as I'm concerned, "threatening" to use your own body in an attempt to raise antibiotic resistant bacteria, is self harm.

You don't have to agree. That's fine.

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Ok and as far I'm concerned it's not. You don't have to agree, that's fine.

You get that this is a joke posted on science memes right? This isn't a real situation.

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