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  • yetAnotherUser@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlNeedle therapy
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    2 months ago

    Placebos work even when you knows it’s a placebo though. Pointing out something is a placebo is important because many are at best overpriced scams (homeopathy) and at worst actively harmful (chiropracty). The culture behind many placebos is also rife with pseudoscience and advocates against seeking out genuine care, so you should ensure nobody gets invested into placebos past a certain point.

    One can make an informed decision regarding taking placebos if and only if one knows it’s a placebo, else one will be scammed and/or harmed.











  • You’re arguing in bad faith and putting words in my mouth

    Suspending students from school for weeks, while protecting the victims temporarily from contact, has the side effect of withholding education from children. Surely they won’t miss anything important while suspended for 4-8 weeks, it’s not like education (or rather the lack thereof) and crime has a strong correlation.

    Any justice system should have these priorities:

    1. Protecting current victim(s)
    2. Preventing future victimizations.
    3. Rehabilitating the perpetrator(s)

    The U.S. justice system sole priority is bloodlust. That’s part of the reason police brutality goes largely ignored: it only affects “criminals” and they deserve it anyway.

    Now: how does the “tough on crime” attitude of the prosecution as reflected in the article protect current or future victims for more than a few months?