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> They believe, wrongly in my opinion, that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines. To me, that's legitimate dissent
by baddox 8y ago
> They believe, wrongly in my opinion, that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines. To me, that's legitimate dissent.
I don't get it. How is this any more legitimate than actually being a Luddite and saying "technology and modern medicine is bad"?
Would you say that racism and bigotry against minorities becomes legitimate if it's phrased as "this minority group will give you a disease if you let them near you"? Because that's actually a pretty classic feature of racist propaganda.
- squozzer 8y ago>that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines = talks about vaccines. >this minority group will give you a disease if you let them near you = talks about people. HN, just fucking delete my account and ban my IP address, as you obviously have a huge fucking problem with my fair-mindedness.
- baddox 8y agoBoth examples are about diseases. Your claim was that their argument is of a legitimate form because it makes a claim about medical risk. My rhetorical argument was of the same form.