{"id":5048,"date":"2020-03-01T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2020-03-01T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:59:50","slug":"reading-response-prescription-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/01\/reading-response-prescription-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response &#8211; Prescription Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this article was a very odd experience for me. Initially, I strongly disagreed with the conclusion Jessica Flanigan was arguing. I don\u2019t think we should allow people to simply self-medicate, as that often leads to addiction and to making the problem worse. However, as the article went on, I began to realize I agreed with her premises and sub-conclusions. I certainly think people have the right to refuse treatment, however faulty I might view their justification, and I believe in the general principle that people have the right to do whatever they want to their own bodies as long as they don\u2019t hurt others. However, despite agreeing with all of that, I still stubbornly disagreed with her overall conclusion. But why? Even while I\u2019m writing this, I honestly don\u2019t know. I will need to do some more thinking to ultimately decide where I fall on this issue, especially since it isn\u2019t a topic I\u2019ve really put any thought into before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this article was a very odd experience for me. Initially, I strongly disagreed with the conclusion Jessica Flanigan was arguing. I don\u2019t think we should allow people to simply self-medicate, as that often leads to addiction and to making the problem worse. However, as the article went on, I began to realize I agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}