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The Drug that Debunks Free Will

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The Irony of a Shot That Makes You Lose Weight

The irony of a shot that makes you lose weight is that you're supposed to be a moral failing if you have weight that you don't want, right? Yeah. There's another thing I think we have in American culture that's just uniquely theoretical, which is that we think that there's some kind of moral virtue in suffering and we kind of build it into the system. The traditional way pre-ozempic via diet and exercise, there's an idea that you earned it somehow. And then if you are able to lose it via just taking a shot that you're cheating on some level, which is morally backwards.

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