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I find it silly to try and disprove idiots who think some bogus alternative medicine works. Let the evolution take its course and weed out the morons.

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Well, feel free to take any medicine you want, whenever something hurts or you feel depressed, basically every time you want to adjust any body function. Never mind side effects and let evolution take its course.

Because anyone that ever takes any form of medication doesn't live long enough to reproduce?

WFT are you on about?

it's not so much about the reproduction of the person as of the idea.

Then it has little to do with evolution.

Wow. So much hostility.

Why? (Serious question. Not snark at all.)

I don't feel the same way as the person you are responding to, but I can empathize with his position. I left my religion of 29 years, and in the process I shattered connections with almost everybody in my life. They always try to bring up the religion and my beliefs, and I always cast aside the opportunity to try to convince them.

It isn't that I'm hostile or smug to them or their beliefs...it is just that arguing with them using reason and logic is so tiresome because we aren't arguing using the same language. We might as well be talking in Latin and Arabic.

Thanks, though I think the comparison to religion is probably a lot more accurate than the comparison to language. Wishing for someone to die is generally a level of hostility rooted in something deeper and uglier than communication challenges. If that was all it was, translators could end all wars and the world doesn't really work that way.

Have a great day.

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