I did not address you, I addressed Sineed, is she not capable of responding for herself?
I'm quite certain she is. However, it's an open message board and it's not uncommon for people to respond to posts freely. If you wanted response limited to Sineed, may I suggest the PM function?
What would make you happy? Would you like me to go away? Do you think sniping at me will succeed in pushing me off babble? Do you understand that your behavior reveals you as a person incapable of allowing another person to have a different point of view?
I don't know why you think I'm trying to push you off babble... You're as free to be here as anyone else. However, ascribing motivations and impugning your fellow posters' characters starts flirting with the personal attacks bit in the policy for the site. You might want to watch that.
I can only say that I am grateful to live in a world I experience as multi-dimensional, where I understand and appreciate that sometimes the treatment for cancer is most appropriately chemotherapy and radiation but that in other circumstances not appropriate at all. You and Sineed have made this thread about chemotherapy as the only treatment, ignoring that the issue isn't whether it is or isn't but that the First Nations people will decide for themselves. Perhaps that is the real focus, perhaps it is all about framing the argument to supercede the rights of the First Nations and using a child who is ill is an easy way to stir up people's emotions and justify ignoring those rights.
Regardless your experience of the world, biology doesn't bow to culture or worldview. The only treatment that had any chance of saving that child's life that we know of at present was chemotherapy. The odds were never 100%, the outcome never entirely ensured, but removal of that treatment effectively removed any hope at all. This isn't a condemnation of culture, it's just a fact. As Sineed posted above, using medical science does not mean abandoning one's culture. I'm not sure what is gained by insisting that it is. Certainly, Makayla didn't gain anything.
I'm not sure that removing Makayla's chances to live, grow up, and be part of the change that needs to happen is a positive step forward for FN rights.
As for Dr.Gorski, he freely acknowledges that chemotherapy can kill, how is that you can't?
I haven't actually said that it can't. I've seen firsthand some of the side effects of chemo, I know it's a difficult treatment. I lost my closest friend to lymphoma about a year and a half ago. She was in the 10% that don't make it (but it wasn't the chemo that killed her). My objection has been that we can't definitively say that the effect of chemo was the cause of death in Makayla's particular case just because her parents say so.