Monday, January 16, 2017

Language Trickery 101: Use vs. Abuse


Every loaded argument against HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) by way of anabolic steroids, if you will only read more carefully, centers on steroid abuse, NOT on steroid use. This is an obscuring tactic used by frightened people who confound the truth in order to win others over to their questionable agenda. Lying, obscuring, misleading and outright trickery are despicable tactics that sadly, many likeminded manipulators subscribe to. 

Pay attention to the language: the list of supposed ill effects attributed to steroids by questionable, and even by official government, sources centers on their ABUSE, not on their USE.

Take too many steroids for too many years, they argue, and you are destined to suffer dire consequences. Probably true. Also true: take too many sleeping pills for too many years and you are destined to suffer dire consequences. Drink too much alcohol for too many years and you are destined to suffer dire consequences. Smoke too many cigarettes for too many years and you are destined to suffer dire consequences. Take too many prescription pain killers for too many years and you are destined to suffer dire consequences. Eat too many meals at McDonald’s for too many years and you are destined to suffer dire consequences.

Interesting how all these socially acceptable activities have such dire consequences, yet we don't need laws to protect us from them. Thank you for saving us from steroids, heroic lawmakers! Nobody's ever OD'd on steroids, nor do steroids get anyone high, yet the US government has classified steroids in the same highly dangerous category as heroin. That is insane.

That those who continue to take unnecessary prescription pain killers, ostensibly for a decades-old “injury,” or use a pharmaceutical patch to stop smoking, or take a pharmaceutical to enable them to get an erection, or take a pharmaceutical to try and regrow lost hair, or take a pharmaceutical to try and grow eyelashes, or take a pharmaceutical to prevent wrinkles and facial furrows, or take a pharmaceutical to lose weight, are the worst kind of anti-HRT hypocrites. One wonders at their choice to draw the line where they have, allowing themselves one or even multiple age-treatment pharmaceuticals while disavowing another. It makes no sense — unless perhaps you are a psychologist.

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