us election thread

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a) if your platform involves forcing me to pay money to provide sugar water to hippies, its not harmless

that's a very big "if". last time i checked, meditation costs less than drugs and doesn't come with side effects.

alternative medicine, specially in branches like mental healthcare, is nothing to scoff at. homeopathy may be all about overly complicated placebos, but acupuncture is widespread worldwide, demonstrably effective and supported, even if under some limitations, by major first-world NHS's such as the uk's and germany's i think. one of the reasons why is, again, that it's better than conventional medicine on some cases on the long run because it avoids drugs and its side-effects.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16842918
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16095547
http://aim.bmj.com/content/30/4/273.full 

i wont go into this issue again because my point is that you're being blindly dismissive, because you seem to have a general prejudice against "green" ideas. i get why, there's a lot of bullshit out there, but you shouldn't let that cloud your judgement