Should we promote a drug that “cures” shyness?

I am agnostic on this point. If your daughter doesn't want to be shy, and cares about it enough to bear the cost of the drug in both money and side effects, then let the pharmaceutical companies produce a drug for her, and let her buy it.

Would I approve if my health insurance provider raised my premium to pay for your daughter's drug? No I wouldn't. I'm happy to pay for an operation on her appendicitis, but not for curing her shyness.

Not copies...Plain Do-Dos.

Dodos?

I am introverted, but extroverts do not step on me! Being an introvert does not make you a doorstep. We simply watch the extrovert make an a$$ of themselves as we silently realize how superior we truly are. Extroverts leave everything out on the table, so introverts can silently take advantage of their weaknesses.

I don't feel so positive Linkat, I never seem to be able to get past extroverts taking my introverted social behaviour as me not liking them, or as me acting superior. The social cost extracted by the majority for refusing to conform to expected behaviour never seems to go away, it goes better with tolerant well educated people...but is still a problem.

I guess I don't really care in a sense that if some one doesn't like the way I am too bad. Plenty of good quality people do like the way I am and appreciate me. I don't like to confirm to society any how and I really don't care if I do. I am happy as long as I am myself and to h*ll with anyone who cannot further than the surface.

Phoenix wrote:



It would be ideal if Phoenix's statement could be the standard instead of sales quotas and the bottom line.

There are too many instances and extremes for there to be one answer. There sould be plenty of room for introverts and extroverts in our society, but when a characteristic is so extreme that it affects one's life, then drugs can be useful, even life saving. Remember, depression can easily become a terminal illness without treatment, more often than not with drugs.

Modern drugs have saved many lives and they shouldn't be demonized just because too many people use them for less than serious reasons.

IMO, it becomes morally repugnent when drugs are used on children to calm their behavior rather than dealing with it with proper medical supervision. This would include drugs, if they were subscribed and supervised by a doctor instead of the teacher and used only as a last resort.