Those claiming to be anti "woo" and pro science

[sabrina 1]

129. Of course you are trying to control the choices of others. It's right there in your comment over and

over again. In your case it's slightly more subtle than some of the other comments in this thread, one of which outright stated that what other people do IS her/his concern due to the fact that their choices somehow make hers/his more difficult. That individual clearly wants to control the choices of anyone who doesn't agree with her/him.

Yours, as I said is a more subtle attempt to control others. You refer to other people's choices in a very derogatory manner. You have made wild assumptions eg, about MINE, considering I have never really engaged in these discussions before nor discussed what I think about the subject. I make my own decisions, good or bad and do not generally even discuss them with others. So far, I am one of the healthiest people I know, never needed prescription drugs in my life other than an anti-biotic after a bite from a lime deseased tick, other times I have relied on common sense rather than rushing to a doctor or the ER each time I have a sniffle, so obviously those choices have worked for me. But it's MY business, no one else's.

What brought me into the discussion was not to discuss choices, that's not my business, but because I have noticed as others have, over the course of several years, the bullying from one side of this discussion, both overt and subtle.

Here, let me demonstrate what I mean by subtle attempts to control the behavior of others:

First, as I said above, I don't see anyone hear trying to deny anyone the right to hold whatever outlandish beliefs they like, and even to act on those beliefs. (There are exceptions when, for example, parents deny children lifesaving treatment.) It's a free country and

you have the legal right to blow all your money on homeopathic remedies administered while you lie under a pyramid surrounded by healing crystals

. AFAIK there's no serious movement in the U.S. to ban any of those things. Purveyors of such quack remedies aren't allowed to lie about their products, but then, neither are purveyors of anything else.

Perhaps if you had stuck to the topic at hand I might have been willing to engage in a discussion of the actual facts surrounding the WOO both in the Medical Profession, and yes, it most certainly does exist there, and outside of it. But your inability to simply state that people have the right, even if you do not agree with them, to their own choices without using derogatory and WILD assumptions, presumably about me, (what is a healing crystal btw, sounds interesting) made it clear that you are lacking in self awareness at the very least and at most, are attempting to put down those who have different views from you. Which translates to 'trying to control other people's choices'.

And THAT is why I am here. I could not care less what choices people make, especially people I do not know, but I do despise bullying. Too bad medical science hasn't found a cure for that. I do know how to cure it btw and have but that's another story.