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This article is the most thoughtful, insightful and well written article I've read all day, perhaps even week. Maybe they are not novel ideas, but well put toge

by labawi 5y ago

This article is the most thoughtful, insightful and well written article I've read all day, perhaps even week. Maybe they are not novel ideas, but well put together, connected and balanced. OTOH, I fail to see the connection between anti-vaxx, off-grid and Facebook (nor is it in the article). > we live in a capitalist system almost everything is for profit If I count up my daily interactions, most of them are not for profit - people have families, friends, are kind and helpful to each other. Much less so when doing it for one's own benefit. Fear comes from past experience. The mentioned phones likely make them trust the system even less, though they may consider it an acceptable or necessary trade-off or not know what it entails. If I offered to track all information about you, or jab you with a needle (no vaccine) and you had to choose one, which would you pick? Can you conceive of someone choosing differently? I don't think you will find many instances of your idealized anti-vaxxers, which is partly the point of the article.

celticninja 5y ago
Most of your daily interactions are not for profit. But did you eat during any of these interactions? Then you participated in the capitalist society, unless you grew and cooked the food yourself. Did you use a phone to coordinate with others? Again you participated. It is difficult to not participate,I understand that, so singling out medical care is a weird stance to take. I live in the UK, medicine here is not a for profit industry. Does that mean having a vaccination in the UK is ok but in the US it is not? The NHS buys it from a for profit company, does that make a difference? What about aspirin/Tylenol/ibuprofen? Do anti-vaxxers avoid the use of all medicines or is it something specific about injecting a vaccine that has been made by a for profit entity that is the issue? People are irrational, I get it, and people are free to be irrational, that is their choice. But I am also free to call out that irrationality if I want to.

by labawi 5y ago

celticninja 5y ago

Most of your daily interactions are not for profit. But did you eat during any of these interactions? Then you participated in the capitalist society, unless you grew and cooked the food yourself. Did you use a phone to coordinate with others? Again you participated. It is difficult to not participate,I understand that, so singling out medical care is a weird stance to take. I live in the UK, medicine here is not a for profit industry. Does that mean having a vaccination in the UK is ok but in the US it is not? The NHS buys it from a for profit company, does that make a difference? What about aspirin/Tylenol/ibuprofen? Do anti-vaxxers avoid the use of all medicines or is it something specific about injecting a vaccine that has been made by a for profit entity that is the issue? People are irrational, I get it, and people are free to be irrational, that is their choice. But I am also free to call out that irrationality if I want to.