Ken, you are all over the place.  Your original complaint was about your perceived lack of "freedom of choice".  I explained the fallacy of that, twice.  

Now you're off into another tangent.  In regard to this latest tangent:

1.  I never stated that any chemicals should be treated the same.  

2. Thalidomide, Vioxx, and margarine have no more relevance to water fluoridation than do little green men from Mars.  For one thing, they do not already exist in water as does flouride....for another,  they have not been ingested by humans since the beginning of time, as has fluoride....third, they do not have a track record of 71 years, hundreds of millions having ingested them during that time, with no proven adverse effects...as does optimally fluoridated water.

Steven D. Slott, DDS