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German culture is not as feircly selfish as American culture. They also have far lower vaccine hesitancy rates.

by mdoms 5y ago

epicureanideal 5y ago
“Selfishness” is not how I would characterize the motivations of people who haven’t vaccinated. By the way, I have been vaccinated for months, but I can understand that others may not want to for reasons other than those I would describe as “selfish”.
- sneak 5y ago
  Regardless of their motivation, remaining unvaccinated is a selfish choice, same as driving around burning gasoline recreationally.
- mike00632 5y ago
  Wait, how is it non-selfish? I've only ever heard selfish reasons to not get the vaccine, e.g. that there could be side effects to them personally so they selfishly decide to not get the vaccine.
  - BrandonM 5y ago
    You have a bazillion replies sprayed across this whole thread. Many of them are extremely confrontational, baselessly accusatory, and certainly not convincing. What do you think you’re accomplishing? I got the vaccine. Still, I can easily come up with like a dozen good faith, non-selfish reasons to avoid getting it. Are you unwilling to brainstorm a little, or are you just being disingenuous?
  - aqme28 5y ago
    The only non-selfish reason I can think of is that you're misinformed.
nanis 5y ago
> German culture is not as feircly selfish Oh, let's please not delve too deeply into "German culture". Update/PS: Maybe the downvoters can explain how the unselfish German culture works when it comes to things like considering Turks to be equally valuable human beings.
sbakzbsmx 5y ago
Do we really want to start extolling the virtues of German culture and its obsession with virtues such as orderliness, obedience, hygiene? German culture is all nice and tidy until someone, necessarily a deviant, needs to shout out: “STOP! We’re committing a crime!” Teutons don't tolerate deviants.

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German culture is not as feircly selfish as American culture. They also have far lower vaccine hesitancy rates.

by mdoms 5y ago

German culture is not as feircly selfish as American culture. They also have far lower vaccine hesitancy rates.

epicureanideal 5y ago
“Selfishness” is not how I would characterize the motivations of people who haven’t vaccinated. By the way, I have been vaccinated for months, but I can understand that others may not want to for reasons other than those I would describe as “selfish”.
- sneak 5y ago
  Regardless of their motivation, remaining unvaccinated is a selfish choice, same as driving around burning gasoline recreationally.
- mike00632 5y ago
  Wait, how is it non-selfish? I've only ever heard selfish reasons to not get the vaccine, e.g. that there could be side effects to them personally so they selfishly decide to not get the vaccine.
  - BrandonM 5y ago
    You have a bazillion replies sprayed across this whole thread. Many of them are extremely confrontational, baselessly accusatory, and certainly not convincing. What do you think you’re accomplishing? I got the vaccine. Still, I can easily come up with like a dozen good faith, non-selfish reasons to avoid getting it. Are you unwilling to brainstorm a little, or are you just being disingenuous?
  - aqme28 5y ago
    The only non-selfish reason I can think of is that you're misinformed.
nanis 5y ago
> German culture is not as feircly selfish Oh, let's please not delve too deeply into "German culture". Update/PS: Maybe the downvoters can explain how the unselfish German culture works when it comes to things like considering Turks to be equally valuable human beings.
sbakzbsmx 5y ago
Do we really want to start extolling the virtues of German culture and its obsession with virtues such as orderliness, obedience, hygiene? German culture is all nice and tidy until someone, necessarily a deviant, needs to shout out: “STOP! We’re committing a crime!” Teutons don't tolerate deviants.