The first article that was assigned to us for reading was extremely interesting to me. It argued that prescription drug laws violate patients’ rights to self-medication. It began by discussing two ideas called risky refusal and risky access. Risky refusal is where a doctor can strongly recommend that you get a procedure or take a certain medication to help with an ailment. Doctors do not have the ability to force you into doing anything. Whereas risky access is where a patient feels as though they need medication to help with their ailment whereas a doctor believes that is not the case.  The author believes that this is in violation of the Kantian principle of treating people as rational autonomous agents. He believes that if a patient has the ability to not take medication then another individual should have the option to take medication if they want to. I completely disagree with his viewpoints. The main reason being that if drugs were made over the counter people would have the ability to abuse them or misdiagnose themselves. This would cause another major problem in the US, a country that already struggles with drug use. In addition, these drugs could be sold on the black market if made more accessible leading to more misuse of the drug.

The next article discusses how preventing immigrants from coming into our country is unjust. They believe it interferes with liberty and maintains this problem of global poverty because people are unable to escape. The author compares this to someone already living in the US and preventing them from moving to another state. The only issue that I have with this argument is that the woman is a US citizen who pays taxes and works. Whereas with illegal aliens they are not taxed on their income and are not guaranteed to work. I am all in favor of legal immigrants and understand how hard it is to come into the US legally.