If you are semi reasonable then you will vote democrat, because you realize that voting green is throwing your vote away.
As we all know, the only way to enact change is to continue as you have always done. If you don't see that democrats and republicans are just two sides of the same shitty coin your deluding yourself.
Unless you can suddenly get a large part of the people to vote for one specific party, I doubt you're going to change anything. America is stuck with it's 2 party system thanks to the way the elections work. (Ie, say I found a new party, that's like, for example, the democrats, but slightly different. Now, say, originally 55% of the population would have voted democrats, with 45% going to the republicains. Unfortunately my party got 10% of the votes that would have originally gone to the democrats go to me instead., causing them to lose the election.*)
*This would of course happen on a per state basis.
There is no such freedom as the freedom to knowingly pick a therapy that will kill you, you mean? If so, yes. >:-(
I believe there's the right to deny treatment, and there's always Euthanasia, though I don't know the legality of that in the States.
I'm a bit less sanguine about that view, considering I've used CTM (Chinese Traditional Medicine) to good effect in the past. Acupuncture used to be (still is in some circles) considered quackery too.
Yup, some of these things actually work.(Science often picks these up, but I remember that relatively recent research discovered that a folk medicin could cure a disease that was thought to be uncureable). Homeopathy can't work though. It completely relies on the placebo effect.
But you should be free to choose a treatment that is not accepted by the majority of science. Also the green party doesn't say it should be offered in hospitals, just that it should be more readily available than it is now. And besides: I don't think it's unethical to offer "bullshit alongside real medicine" if you keep with what I quoted from their website: the patient needs to be made aware that this is not "real medicine".
But is it ethical that you allow a patient to choose a medicin that you know will kill him, but he believes works. I believe that under current law you could be accused of negligence with death as a result.
"Traditional Chinese medicine" just screams bullshit to me.
By the way, I think holistic is closer to what that person was thinking of to mean "natural cures" than homeopathy.
There are a quite herbal remedies in there that actually work, and are currently being researched. Most of them are crap though
Edit: Damn ninjas