thesicks13 wrote:Sorry you are correct, there was no direct "name calling". I would, however, call it somewhat insulting to ridicule what someone else believes in. If a person has used and believes that somethink works, to tell them its is a load of rubbish, is none of their business and down right rude or "insulting" and is in fact a personal attack.
Err, no, it's not. I quote myself from the sticky:
You are still welcome to disagree with other users, we're just expecting you to do it without resorting to comments about their parentage or body odor.
So where did I say anything
personal? I think that homeopathy is a load of codswallop, so I'm disagreeing with
opinions of the original poster, and you're welcome to disagree right back.
Is there any scientific evidence of a god or gods. No. Does most of the world believe in one...Yes. Would you tell someone here that their belief is rubbish. I would hope not.
Psst -- there's a perfectly serious thread
on that very topic right here:
http://www.singaporeexpats.com/forum/ft ... asc-0.html
Is there any scientific evidence that the large proportion of chinese medicine works. No. Do you think it right to ridicule those that use it? Again I doubt you would
I would not ridicule
those that use it, just as I did not ridicule
those that use homeopathy. I would, however, point out that the efficacy of most TCM treatments has not been scientifically validated. (Which is several orders of magnitude less bad than homeopathy, which is perfectly well known not to work, but I digress.)
Actually I would like moderators to show at least a degree of decorum and some manners and if they no worthwhile advice to give (I remind you it was a recommendation that was asked for not an opinionated lecture) on matters as personal as how to "assist" in the treatment of a child they should keep quiet.
You're misunderstanding what this moderating thing is all about. Us moderators are perfectly ordinary forum users who are not paid a cent for the glamorous job of cleaning this forum's toilets, and 99% of the time we're posting
our own opinions as ourselves. We don't delete responses or ban users for disagreeing with us; hell, if a moderator ever
did get busted for something like that, it would be grounds for instant termination. The 1% of the time that we
do lay down the law, like in the sticky at the top of this thread, we make it clear that we're wearing the moderator hat.
By the way the lady in question has left this site and uses others due to Jpat's response to her.
That's unfortunate, and I'd like to apologize if she felt personally offended. However, as I said in my original reply, I was offering my opinion out of concern for the welfare of her child.
