I've watched a couple of ducmentaries over the last few days so here are my thoughts on those. Tomorrow I'll hope to do a new installation of my postsecret review feature; I skipped last week's because they were all Father's day related secrets which was sort of boring - no variety. Anyways, onto the documentaries.
They were about subject matters that I find particularly interesting: drug addiction and nuclear weapons. The first documentary was about nuclear weapons and it was titled Command and Control. It was about something I hadn't known about previously, which was an accident about 35 years ago (approximately; I don't remember the exact date) with a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon was in a facility, an error occurred, and it nearly exploded. So the documentary was about the dangers of having nuclear weapons because things can go wrong and there is a risk of them accidentally exploding where they're stored instead of being dropped on an enemy. It made me ponder about the idea of nuclear war with [take your pick of hostile nations].
The second documentary was titled Dr. Feelgood and it was about a doctor who overprescribed painkillers and was convicted basically of being a drug dealer. He doesn't really seem to think that what he had done was particularly wrong - he wasn't worried that there were people getting pills from him which they later sold instead of using them legitimately. I think that doctors do have some responsibility to NOT recklessly prescribe painkillers because it certainly can lead to problems - addiction and all that.
I liked both of these documentaries so it's nice that they were on Netflix even though Netflix doesn't necessarily have a particularly good selection of the things I want to watch.
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