[Science and the world of tomorrow] A pill, synthesized protein, elixir, etc. is developed that will make a person more alert, resistant to viruses and most forms of cancer and do so within eight to twenty-one months after first use, but it has certain side effects, would you try it?

I would consider taking it when I’m older and more likely to get cancer, but probably not now.

I’m on that now. I am trying to get off it. So no, but I might be tempted to give it a trial run.

Almost guaranteed side effects for a slight resistance?

Probably not.

I mean, immunity to cancer is a little more than a slight resistance, imo.

The OP said “resistant”, not “immunity” to viruses and “nearly bulletproof” to cancer – which there’s no real history of in my family anyway; and said the side effects affect roughly ¾ of users. Plus you have to eat 60% more food to maintain weight, which is expensive.

In exchange I get to be hairless and brittle-boned.

Fuck all of that. I’m a walking side effect when it comes to most drugs. Signing up for osteoporosis and blindness is not high on my list.

No.

How can I enjoy my non cancerous, healthy, energetic body of I’m feeling bad another way all the time?
Also, I can achieve health and avoid cancer without making myself a half blind cripple with dry mouth.

It’s like choosing between eating your shit and drinking your piss. And you can avoid both.

Ah, yet another sacrifice oriented question raises it’s hypothetical head
My answer resisting the torrent of if’s in a sea of doubts…no.

I might use it on dangerous jobs. I’m not always the head of security at my normal post. Sometimes in the offseason I get posted at more violent places. One of my guys was shot last year, one of them accidentally killed a guy a few months ago. It wouldn’t be bad to be more alert, and maybe if I didn’t take it all the time the side effects wouldn’t be as great.

@Seek How one can somewhat accurately get some details correct then bomb on others I can guess has to be attributed to selective hearing.

[.. and “nearly bulletproof” to cancer..]
That is more than a slight advantage, as @Mariah said.

In exchange I get to be hairless and brittle-boned.
Hair that is thinning does not bald make, and would not brittle be the other end of merely softening, to get so hard and crusty as to bust up?

Signing up for osteoporosis and blindness is not high on my list.
Blurry vision for a spell, and not very long by most accounts, does not blind make either.

If you only want people to guess the answer you like, fucking say that in the details.

You asked a question. I gave an answer. You don’t get to tell me my opinion of your dumb-ass hypothetical is wrong. It’s my opinion.

Your hypothetical pill is not a choice I would take. Suck it.

^“Can’t we all just get along?”

Rodney King…

^^ You don’t get to tell me my opinion of your dumb-ass hypothetical is wrong.
Anything I found dumb ass I would pass up as it would be too beneath me to even bother with it.

@Seek I thought the General category is for actual answers, yet I see a lot of sarcasm here. The details are being deliberately misconstrued. Why?

I fell like many of the side effects of the medicine are going to be present in our everyday life at one time or another as we get older, so it wouldn’t really be adding anything. What about arthritis?

The General Section is for actual questions that have actual answers. So if anything the question itself is misplaced. This is a hypothetical “what if” scenario – the definition of a social question.

@Seek Good point.

^^ The spirit of it was to get serious answers, if one doesn’t want to ply a serious one point answer they should go to the ”fluffland” which is the rest of Fluther. If it were just for answers that had concrete answers, people can just Google it and not even have a reason to ask, unless it is one of those 2% of questions that is most likely not on the wed; if it were regulated to such as ”how long to bake a potato?”, etc. that can be Googled all day.

^HC is a lightning rod in any format. Usually because of his beliefs. He finally asks a question not tied to religion, and it’s on anyway.

I really enjoy @Seek ‘s contributions but she went hard off the rip in this thread.

Although I don’t agree with much HC says , I enjoy the difference.

May I ask HC, why did you ask this question? Did you just watch limitless or some movie about a similar pill?

@MrGrimm888 May I ask HC, why did you ask this question? Did you just watch limitless or some movie about a similar pill?
Well, contrary to popular belief, I do read a good measure of technical and science stuff. This question was a combination of what science is speculated to do, in treatment, etc. of certain ailments that has plagues mankind for ages, and when I read of a new drug Big Pharm is putting out there, once they get past the clinical trials, there seems to always be some sort of side effects usually laced into the fine print. I wondered, if the medicine, treatment etc. offered a great deal, would people acquiesce to the side effects or would one have to be knee deep in the ailment where the drug, treatment, etc. had to be taken without option and the side effects just part of the cost.

He finally asks a question not tied to religion, and it’s on anyway.
Curious, isn’t it? No matter what, I am damned if I do, or damned of I don’t, so I ask what I please because someone will be vexed about it even when they say they aren’t. I can sever the same burger at the same type of BBQ the masses here has always participated without question, but instead of just enjoying the meal, they assume I am up to something and questioning the meat thinking I am tricking them into eating dog, squirrel, or roadkill, etc.

^Well HC. You seem to have made some people here challenge your every word as tactic. With motive. No matter topic. I can’t speak for others, so I ,as a late addition to Fluther, won’t judge either party.

But I don’t see a ‘victim ’ here either. Apparently some here have a past filled with irreconcilable differences.

I think the both of you would hate to admit that both of you would miss the other. And it would be less interesting without the balance you both provide.

Peace n love to all Fluther

@MrGrimm888: HC asks a lot of questions not tied to religion.

Can we remember that it was my answer that was attacked?

And I’ve been away from this site for over a year in the past. Didn’t miss HC for a single second. I find him deplorable.

You know what, fuck this.

I’m over the poor HC pity party.

Yep, I’m an asshole. I have the audacity to answer a hypothetical question with my hypothetical answer and then defend myself in exasperation when I’m told I have selective hearing and my choice is wrong.

You guys can keep him, with my blessing.

See you in a year, maybe.

Missed point. I hope you don’t leave @Seek. I’ll leave if it’s that big a deal. I haven’t been here near as long.

@Seek Didn’t miss HC for a single second. I find him deplorable.
Seeing the mods might come back to duty and the latter part of this thread look like Swiss cheese, I will put this out there so people can see it even if it doesn’t survive; I NEVER THOUGHT YOU EVIL OR DEPLORIBLE, in fact O would take you out for coffee (with hubby in tow of course), I would not trust you at a BBQ I would feel to burn the place down or let loose rats just for spite. I will try to rise up to just being vexing in the future. ~~~

I’m over the poor HC pity party.
there never was one, however, if someone is ”Rodney Kinging” someone for no reason, onlookers might raise a brow in wonder, and some might dare to bring it to an end; I cannot attack myself, do not even know how I would do it.

I have the audacity to answer a hypothetical question with my hypothetical answer…]
Of other hypothetical questions that has zero plausibility of reality do you make up answers that has nothing to do with the question regardless of where it is posted? For instance if someone wanted to narrow down what people thought was the best weapon to survive a zombie apocalypse would you answer a Bushmaster is good for stopping charging rhinos, and if someone points out the question had nothing to do with rhinos, you feel they are wrong?

Maybe we can get back to the question now?

^^ Where’s the fun in that?

definitely pass