Wrt the OP: Very tricky ethical issue. Very, very tricky! I can't see a correct answer here.
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Originally posted by Lorizael View PostI may have let my daughter die of a horrible, treatable cancer, but at least she didn't have any side effects! (Thanks for the pity posts, Elok.)
It's really complicated here due to how natives and their cultures were treated (google residential schools as a furinstance). There's some bending over the other way by officialdom going on now (google Calodonia, Ontario as a furinstance) but the treatment of aboriginals in society at large can still be pretty shabby. Unfortunately it looks like this child is going to be another victim of a very ****ed up situation.(\__/)
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Originally posted by ricketyclik View PostWrt the OP: Very tricky ethical issue. Very, very tricky! I can't see a correct answer here.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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I could see an argument for allowing this in the name of pragmatism--ie, a certain number of wingnuts will refuse treatment now, but if their right to ooga-booga medicine is dissed, it will serve as a rallying cry for the whole community, and large numbers of people will start consciously withdrawing from the medical system as a whole for fear of Big Brother forcibly giving them what Michele Bachman (IIRC) Freud-ishly described as a "government injection." Don't know if that would actually happen, but I can see that as a possibility.
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While we're talking about moronically ignorant stuff . . .
(please note the "key evidence of a government computer connection to my computer. A sort of backdoor link that leads to an ISP address for a government computer that can’t be accessed by the general public on the Web," as well as the “sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, or the National Security Agency (NSA).”)
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Scientists. If they happen to discover that Islam causes, or cures, terminal cancer, I'll at least give them a listen.
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Originally posted by ricketyclik View PostYou mean things like "Islam is bad"?
Who decides which beliefs are correct?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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There is also the matter of which authority to trust. Medical science annihilated smallpox. Native Americans got (very nearly) annihilated by smallpox. Therefore, I'm inclined to give more weight to medical science.
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If imposing that opinion will keep an innocent child from dying? I'm okay with that. The only objection I consider valid here is the practical one outlined above. Your right to your beliefs ends when those beliefs get people killed. Which is why we invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, instead of getting together to talk about Teachable Moments.
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Originally posted by Elok View PostIf imposing that opinion will keep an innocent child from dying? I'm okay with that. The only objection I consider valid here is the practical one outlined above. Your right to your beliefs ends when those beliefs get people killed. Which is why we invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, instead of getting together to talk about Teachable Moments.
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