Statistically, no it’s not. Sure, it covers a large number of individuals, but it covers so little of the total population that it’s pretty insignificant. There are side effects that occur more frequently with these drugs, and we don’t care much about them either cos they are so low. I mean, yeah treat those who do get side effects bu the STATISTICAL likelihood of that happening is so low, they aren’t gonna pull the drug from the shelves. And I didn’t say that none of the population who takes these drugs suffer mental side effects. I said most of them don’t. And given the best counter argument I’ve been given is “2% of them do”, well, I’m gonna stand by my original assertion. Also, your maths is way off. If 2% of the population is a little under half a million (and I haven’t checked the other person’s maths, but I skimmed it and it seemed fine so I have no reason to distrust it), then 0.5% of the population is not “hundreds of thousands of people”. At most, it’s a bit over 125k people…

And let’s get back to why I said this. It’s about chemical castration of convicted criminals (whether they are actually guilty is kinda immaterial, they’re convicted and the point of doing this is so we don’t kill them if they are actually innocent and can later prove it). When the fuck did we suddenly care that 2% of them might get depressed?! I guarantee being in prison raises their risk of depression by way more than 2%… I mean, I bet none of you expected that you were teeing off on a pathologist who can point out why you’re wrong, but Jesus, how was this ever an issue? Like I said, 100% reversible (from a quick read of two papers, contraceptive depression gwnerally resolves upon cessation) and 100% preferable to executing an innocent person. Fuck me. You people are insane…