Loyalty and (im)personal attacks

[labelleizzy]

On a FB fitness group recently someone asked for advice on seeing a chiropractor. I was one of several people who've seen one and benefited, so I weighed in.

Sometimes people are trolls, and trolls gonna troll. One dude starts yelling in a comment about how chiropractors don't know anything because they're not MD's, theyre dangerous and unethical blah blah blah.

I wanted to reply, defend. But didn't know what to say. Fortunately someone else in the group did @admin so the situation was being taken care of.

Today I know what to say. "Massage therapists know lots of things doctors don't know, they're specialists. Chiropractors go to school and know things doctors don't know, they're specialists too. You don't want to go see a chiropractor or massage therapist, don't. But you don't get to slag off everyone in the field."

There's good and bad practitioners in every field, same as there's good and bad humans in every field from plumbing to poetry to priesthood.

Comments

[cjsmith]

YES THIS.

[labelleizzy]

I'm proud of figuring that out.
I'm also find of the alliteration of the last line.
:):):)

[hitchhiker]

yes, absolutely! i wouldn't ask a chiropractor to doctor me, but i also wouldn't ask a doctor to chiropract me. they're different skills altogether.

[labelleizzy]

Why do people so often have a hate on for chiropractors? I don't understand but I have also not seen a poor one...

[tshuma]

Lots of doctors still think chiropracty is quackery. They pass it along to their patients and community, who pass it on because "a doctor said so" and soon it just "is known."

[labelleizzy]

See, that's some bullshit.
But I guess not surprising in this system.