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The anti-vaxxers analogy is utter nonsense and reads like a poor attempt at hitting the credibility of people disabling windows update. The anti-vaxxer movemen
by bigbugbag 9y ago
The anti-vaxxers analogy is utter nonsense and reads like a poor attempt at hitting the credibility of people disabling windows update.
The anti-vaxxer movement makes no sense outside the backfire effect, in almost all cases it has little to no basis or justifications. On the other hand there is a long history of very valid reasons of distrusting windows update and disabling it.
Using windows update to force people into windows 10 is only one of the most recent examples that windows update is by Microsoft and for the interest of Microsoft not the user.
This is totally different from the system update you have with apt and Debian.
- throwaway2048 9y agoId say the comparison would actually make sense if vaccines DID give you autism.
- a2decrow 9y agoBut they don't. Autism is the product of having a differently wired brain than a non-autist does. It's something you're born with, not something you can get later. Certain medications used by pregnant women can result in children being autistic, but I seriously doubt that this extends to any vaccines as well. Perhaps some really exotic ones maybe, but common vaccination definitely not. Source: I am autistic, read up on it to be able to better deal with it and am dealing with it on a daily basis. And truth be told, I don't know if I'd be better or worse off without it. It doesn't make my life unlivable and I guess the understanding of autism of most people is too much based on rumor-mongering and hearsay, than any actual facts.
- ebiester 9y agoThat's a mistranslation of the above post. The poster intended to say that Microsoft's updates can be legitimately harmful whereas modern vaccines aren't.
- a2decrow 9y agoThanks for pointing it out. It's one of the downsides of autism that understanding the intent of other people can be hard or impossible, so I'm always grateful for hints like that.
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- rhino369 9y agoVaccines can have negative effects. Both that is overwhelmed by the positive effects.