Re: [H] STeve Jobs

Dear Wendy,

I was responding to Jeremy's enquiry, not to you. Though I hadn't seen
this message of yours, in reply to your other message I've essentially
responded to your express wish to obliterate the distinction between
homoeopathy and other therapies.

Your candour is refreshing in your confession that you see "no virtue" in
the distinction between homoeopathy and all other forms of healing; that
you would rather obliterate that single distinction. But it speaks volumes
of your ends in derailing the discussion from one of definition to one of
relative value.

Nobody here is claiming that there is only one true way to heal. That
position is the straw man that trolls *always* produce in response to a
defence of homoeopathy's meaning; but it is a position entirely of your own
invention. Homoeopaths' defence of the clarity of the *meaning* of
homoeopathic practice does not entail ignoring, discounting, or devaluing
any alternative practice; rather, it enables *appreciation* of a thing, of
each kind of practice, for its true nature; it enables *informed
discrimination* between them; and it enables the kind of *intelligent
thought and discussion* that those intent upon obliterating homoeopathy
oppose with every troll at their disposal.

Perhaps you'd like to think about that before mistaking the nature of the
conversation four times consecutively.

Kind regards,

John

On 22 December 2011 23:35, Wendy Howard <wendy@smeddum.net> wrote:

> Intolerance? Censorship? ROFLMAO!!! Come on now John! All I've suggested
> is that it's neither possible nor desirable to impose your personal view of
> homeopathy on the entire profession. Your view is your view and you're
> perfectly entitled to it. Nobody's trying to censor it or take it away from
> you! Or to tell you you're 'wrong'. Only that it's not universally shared
> which, I would have thought, is blazingly obvious without me needing to
> point it out!
>
> I see no virtue in trying to put homeopathy on some kind of pedestal
> separated from all other forms of healing. What's important here? Healing
> the sick surely, not pumping up our own egos because we've been so damn
> clever as to pick some super-therapy to pursue?! Homeopathy is good, but
> it's a long way from being a universal panacea or the last word on the
> subject of healing. We have so much more to learn yet, not least from other
> successful approaches to healing. As I said, there is no single 'One True
> Way' ...

--

"And if care became the ethical basis of citizenship? Our parliaments,
guided by such ideas, would be very different places."

—Paul Ginsborg, *Democracy: Crisis and Renewal*, London: Profile, 2008.
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