Aspirin satirist

Ben Wilson has posted a great piece of satire in a comment at DPF's Kiwiblog. Surely it deserves a post of its own.

It is an outrage that Aspirin is not banned. It has a lot of quite bad known side effects for a lot of people. It is often taken to induce an alternate state of consciousness, namely 'not having a headache'. To many this effect is a potent uplift in alertness, particularly in people who are prone to headaches for whatever reason. Such people exhibit clear signs of dependency in many cases on Aspirin and its analogues.

Children, in particular, should be protected from this insidious drug, which they shouldn't need. Every child should by nature not have a headache, and if they do have one, there is almost always a cause. Just curing the headache doesn't address the cause.

But even consenting adults shouldn't be allowed...

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