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> I should add, if I got diabetes and had to take insulin, I would be pissed to the point that I'd make it my sole goal in life to find a way to live without having to take insulin.

I feel like you're ascribing it to some sort of moral failing then that someone would turn to medication for help. These things aren't always under people's control.

> I'd rather get sick and fail than live with it forever.

In the case of type 1 diabetes that could literally mean death. These hypotheticals are very easy to lay out, but much, much harder to live with.




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