[cryoshon]

>treating a symptom does nothing toward treating the root cause

imagine if someone told you that it won't make a difference to give you a painkiller for your broken leg because it won't cure the broken leg.

the root cause is not easily accessible. but that doesn't mean all other approaches to lightening the burden are useless. it means that a plurality of approaches will be necessary to solve the problem.

[parkovski]

Ok imagine that you have a broken leg and the only painkillers we've invented are local, and when you take those another limb breaks just to spite you. That's where we are with this. It doesn't get to be nice and painless while it heals and I can't see anything making any difference unless enough of us under no circumstances vote for anyone that supports this stuff.