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It was kind of a mike drop moment. Honestly, my buddy has associated hard-right and anti-left views as part of his identity. He doesn't wear a seat belt becaus
by throwaway803453 5y ago
It was kind of a mike drop moment. Honestly, my buddy has associated hard-right and anti-left views as part of his identity. He doesn't wear a seat belt because he doesn't want the gov't telling him what to do. That type of extreme. But he's also smart, so I suspect sometimes he says things as a cry for help, the way an alcoholic will mock you for drinking just one beer because it reminds them that they have habits they can't break or have regretfully become part of their identity.
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- loopz 5y agoAll sorts of insecurities start to show in people when you decide to go against the grain, choose for yourself and embrace deliberate action without hiding anything. That most people tend to think it's because of trying to show off rather than a small sacrifice that you eventually stop thinking about, is sadly very telling. It's very natural though to ask about something that is different in some way.
- gremloni 5y agoSmart how? Like a good programmer or creative or just some sad contrarian?
- madeofpalk 5y ago> He doesn't wear a seat belt because he doesn't want the gov't telling him what to do. [...] But he's also smart Is he?
- slim 5y agoPeople have weaknesses. Some people are afraid of cockroaches. You can't explain all behaviors with logic
- zabzonk 5y ago> Some people are afraid of cockroaches Not so much "afraid" (I don't think they will attack me) as "deeply disgusted", particularly by their smell, and their fouling of my foods. There are lots of reasons to hate cockroaches.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoAs a mercifully sheltered Brit, what do they smell of?
- zabzonk 5y agoYou are not sheltered - they are endemic in the UK. And if you have them, you will know the smell (human languages are notoriously bad at describing smells).
- geoduck14 5y agoMy 3 yo daughter was afraid of flies. It was REALLY annoying. I tried to teach her she can poke them and they'll leave her alone.
- manicdee 5y agoYou can be a brilliant neurologist and also be anti-vax. Expertise in one field doesn't imply expertise in others even if they appear closely related to the layperson.
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoUh dunno if you saw his, but this morning I read about a study that shows that PhDs have the highest by-education rate of not getting vaccinated. https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/ https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoAt the beginning of the year their rate was not the highest, but other groups got convinced (their rates lowered), but PhDs remained constant. To me it means the PhDs have a high degree of confidence in their own beliefs (surely thinking they've come to their conclusions rationally and with rigorous scientific reasoning), and no push will change their minds. Whether this self-evaluation is accurate or not, is a different question. I wonder what their PhDs are even in, if it's molecular biology, then, well, maybe there's a case there, but a PhD in, say, Polynesian cultures?
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoMy guess is that the level of education required to get a PhD instills in one an extreme level of skepticism; since most PhDs are not in genetics or virology (just simple statistics), most PhDs are skeptical of the fields from which they are not experts.
- jjeaff 5y agoBut if they are skeptical of the experts, why in the world aren't they skeptical of the non-expert saying the vaccine is dangerous?