| Kyran,
Even though we are on the same page as far as individual choice and no government intervention, please don't confuse your personal bias in rationalizing why maggot treatment is 'primitive or barbaric'. Our health care system is far from being 'free market' and so to use the market forces as an expalnation for the discontinued use of maggots for medicinal purposes 100 years ago is not a valid argument. There are a variety of reason for practices to come in and out of favor with the guild-like medical establishment we currently have. You are incorrect in assuming that maggot treatment doesn't work or that there are automatically 'better, new' methods since maggots fell out of favor some years ago.
Your implication in your statement, "That doesn't prove jack. If you think people really want this kind of "treatment", then go open up a clinic and make your fortune. Put MAGGOTS WILL EAT YOUR SKIN CHEAP on your sign. I wish you the best of luck." is that since TODAY, this wouldn't be a viable business endeavor and thusly for all time is flawed. Fact is, maggots do have beneficial uses, and, if this uses are also cost effective then it is very realistic to assume that at some point in the future (next year, 5 years?) a 'maggot clinic' would be a profitable enterprise...
on all else we agree - less government so individuals can dictate their own lives and be responsible for all their actions, instead of shifting the costs on those most productive in society...
michael
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