What a waste. Why don't we spend our resources on things that matter, like aids and cancer. People don't have to do coke, then they won't need a vaccine. Hell, I've done coke, and I don't want a vaccine!

Seriously, work on making antibodies for sicknesses that people can't really control wether they get or not, don't spend time and money trying to galvanize people from something that they should know now to do to begin with.

Douche McCallister wrote:

FNJ wrote: What a waste. Why don't we spend our resources on things that matter, like aids and cancer. People don't have to do coke, then they won't need a vaccine. Hell, I've done coke, and I don't want a vaccine! Seriously, work on making antibodies for sicknesses that people can't really control wether they get or not, don't spend time and money trying to galvanize people from something that they should know now to do to begin with. While I can see your argument there are countless labs and scientists around the world working on those vaccines. However what this could lead to is something amazing. I can imagine that a nicotine vaccine would be possible with further research and then you alleviate cancer to an extent as well as health issues. Also sorry to hear you've done coke. I bet it was super awesome though.

the rolleyes is unnecessary.

What I'm saying is that if people don't want the side effects of things like nicotine, they should just not smoke to begin with. it's like breaking all of the windows in your house on purpose, and then spending the money to fix them. Just don't break the windows to begin with.

spending the time and money to make a vaccine for things like that is a pointless waste.

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

FNJ wrote: the rolleyes is unnecessary. What I'm saying is that if people don't want the side effects of things like nicotine, they should just not smoke to begin with. it's like breaking all of the windows in your house on purpose, and then spending the money to fix them. Just don't break the windows to begin with. spending the time and money to make a vaccine for things like that is a pointless waste. people should just not start to take cocaine? well somethings happen, people are not able to control them a 100%. damn feelings! and people investing their lifetime to provide a vaccine to help people in very serious not to say fatal situations that can easely go that far to destroy an entire human existence is a waste? Are you insane?!

Don't talk to me like I'm a moron. I probably know more about these things than you do. people are rarely FORCED to do drugs like cocaine. If you're talking about stupid things like peer pressure, or being lead to believe that it's cool and harmless, then that's just idiocy.

there is plenty of research done on chemical dependency and human psychology. people can kick habits without needing an easy way out vaccine. people can also be intelligent enough to not get in the situation to begin with.

what happens when something like this becomes common fair? like laser tattoo removal surgery? "oh I guess I can just do this now, and get the vaccine later. fuck the consequences!"

it's much smarter to educate people and steer them away from that path, especially considering we have programs in place to help people who fall off the path. a giant reason that most people don't try drugs like this to begin with is because of the fear that they'd have to go down the path that it would take them on. if you create a wonder drug that takes care of that path, there's nothing stopping people from trying the drugs to begin with.

unless we are talking about this drug being mandatory, like given at birth or something, like when people just forgot Freddy Kruger existed and he stopped killing people.

Douche McCallister wrote:

This isn't for the people that voluntarily do it because there is a cure, because nobody out there has that ability to be cured yet. I'm pretty sure children who are born from a cracked out mom didn't really want her to snort coke but guess what, they come out of the womb with addictions. How about the pessimistic assholes open up your minds and embrace technology and scientific breakthroughs. I can imagine a way to reverse permenant brain damage would also be frowned upon because they shouldn't have knowingly put themselves in those dangerous situations. If there is an easier way of kicking a habit why wouldn't you embrace it. It would be like saying I'm going to climb this mountain to get to work even though I could simply walk through the tunnel they built.

The thing is, it's NOT an easier way of kicking a habit. It's a get out of jail free card, to put things into monopoly terms. You can kick a coke habit through conventional rehab. All this drug will do is downplay the negative effects of taking the drug to begin with. Sure, there might not be a cure right now, but what about after they continue following up on this research? This is nothing more than a bunch of intelligent people devoting themselves to figuring out something pointless, just because they can, instead of working on something that matters.

Reversing brain damage is a whole other ball game. getting hurt playing football or getting hit by a car is a little bit different than knowingly taking illegal, harmful substances. people SHOULD be working on reversing brain damage INSTEAD of making coke vaccines.

I may be a pessimistic asshole, but I'm far from being somebody who doesn't embrace scientific breakthrough, and I'm definitely not close minded. This whole vaccine thing is like dying of dehydration and using the water that you have to make a delicious instant cake instead of drinking it.