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New political party in the Netherlands
By now you've heard about the political group in the Netherlands that calls itself the "Charity, Freedom, and Diversity Party." What they stand for is pedophilia. What they are clamoring for is to lower the age of consensual sex from 16 to 12 immediately and eventually eliminate an age limit a

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ltogether. They are also asking the Dutch parliament to make it legal for television stations to broadcast hard core pornography during the day. Furthermore, they want to legalize public nudity and bestiality. In addition, they believe that everyone should get to ride the trains for free. Oh yes, and they oppose cruelty to animals.

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; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

to a recent poll, 82% of the citizens of the Netherlands believe that their government should do something to stop the new party, while 67% agree that promoting pedophilia should be illegal. This suggests that most Hollanders are as shocked and outraged as the rest of us.

Grotesque misnomer
I see no need to become indignant and v

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

itriolic about what is obviously a publicity stunt by an insignificant special-interest group. But when I heard about this incident, I was troubled by their choice of a name. Does pedophilia sound to you like charity and freedom? Is it really diversity?

Definitive examination
The original meaning of "charity" (from the Latin, c

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ritas) was love or affection. The King James Version's rendering of 1 Corinthians 13:13 comes to mind: "Now abideth faith, hope, and charity, but the greatest of these is charity." More recently, the word has come to mean, according to Webster, "the provision of help or relief to the poor; something that is given to help the needy."

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d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

dom is defined as "the condition of being free of restraints; liberty of the person from slavery, oppression, or incarceration." Diversity's definition is "the fact or quality of being diverse; difference; a point or respect in which things differ."

Self-imposed victimization
By choosing these terms to denote their cause, the pedo

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

philiacs seem to be focusing our attention on them as recipients of our charity, beneficiaries of freedom we allow them, and the objects of our tolerance of their divergence from our norms. Their name is a plea, as if they are crying, "Accept us for who we are and what we do, in the name of charity, freedom, diversity."

Most politica

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

parties seek to focus on what they propose to do to benefit humanity (whether they ever do is another issue). Even the Communist Party uses its name to point to a principle they see as positive, the enforced sharing of capital and labor. But this party does not offer anything positive beyond their "chicken-in-every-pot" promise of free trai

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

n tickets and happy, healthy animals.

Nothing on sex with minors?
The Bible has nothing specifically to say about pedophilia. It does address it indirectly when it limits the sexual relationship to marriage. Paul says, "Because of sexual immoralities (the Greek words here, tas porneias are plural), let each man have his own

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

wife and each woman her own husband." (1 Corinthians 7:2, see verses 1-5). Jesus quotes Genesis 2:24: "A man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" (Mark 4:7-8; Matthew 19:5). These passages do not say, "...and be joined to a child...."

The state's interest
In both the Nether

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ands, the United States, and other countries, governments have a clear interest in the welfare of children. Laws against pedophilia are designed to protect children from sexual deviants, and the prohibitions serve as a barrier (though not an insurmountable one) that urges pedophiliacs to restrain themselves from harming the children they pre

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

y upon. These laws at the very least communicate to the pedophiliac, we think you have a problem. If you will not restrain yourself, we will restrain you, both for your own sake, for this behavior is psychologically destructive, and for the present and future of our children.

Plausible lying
We live in a culture in which we are bo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

barded with hundreds of commercial messages every day. As Dorothy Sayers described the advertising industry in her 1933 mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, advertising consists of constantly telling plausible lies. Should we be surprised that unpopular, even repugnant causes label themselves with titles that mislead us, quell our in

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

dignation, and justify what is wrong?

I can only ask, are the children involved receiving charity? Do they have freedom, freedom to be innocent, freedom from manipulation and abuse? Isn't there a point when diversity morphs into perversity? Or is perversity itself about to be redefined out of existence?

All too common technique
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
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The same kind of plausible lying takes place in other movements attempting societal re-engineering, including those promoting homosexual lifestyles, seeking the abolition of monogamy, defending abortion on demand, doctor-assisted suicide, euthanasia, etc. Plausible lying also frequently takes place in the halls of our governments. They
t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
o to war, impose tariffs, destroy ecosystems, defend torture and wrongful imprisonment, prop up shady businesses, and so on, trying to hide a multitude of sins beneath a blizzard of plausible lies. And yes, it occurs in churches as well, justifying bloated budgets, explaining away hasty pastoral departures, defending fizzled programs.

When
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
we examine what a group stands for and stands against, we have to allow for the possibility that this kind of marketing is taking place. Rather that gulping down everything dished out to us, we should nibble tentatively, unsure how much we can believe. Knowing how often this happens, we should be quick to ask, "Who do you think you are fooli
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
g?"

True charity, freedom, diversity
Christians, at least, have a polestar by which they can assess everything: Jesus Christ and the inspired Word of God. But we also can be deceived by lies that sound plausible.

What God wants of us is deeper thinking and greater caring. Our heart must ache for the children involved with pedophi
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
liacs. It must also ache for the perpetrators themselves. But compassion cannot condone pedophilia in the name of tolerance. It can't condone something destructive to everyone involved; that would not be charity.

Christian compassion must run deep enough to envision freedom--a true freedom that escapes old habits and patterns of thinking, t
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
at seeks new approaches to control entrenched urges. Compassion, true compassion, must be deep enough and strong enough to say, diversity, as praiseworthy as it usually is when applied to ethnicity, race, class, needs limits for it to retain its value. Otherwise, 'diversity,' like 'charity,' and 'freedom,' becomes just one more plausible lie

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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