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>It just makes people more angry at them for not taking the simple steps that would have saved their lives and spared a lot of needless suffering. When you have
by ameminator 5y ago
>It just makes people more angry at them for not taking the simple steps that would have saved their lives and spared a lot of needless suffering. When you have people pridefully hurting everyone around them it's going to cause some resentment.
Those feelings are being used to justify behavior I truly find abhorrent on the HCA subreddit. While the feelings in and of themselves may have some basis, they don't excuse that the whole purpose of that subreddit is to "piss on the graves" of the antivaxxers who died.
> I don't know how to do that while still respecting the privacy of the people suffering though
The privacy of the people suffering was never a concern, and the website administration only stepped in [0] once some bad press [1] came about, partially due to those privacy violations.
I really sympathize with your position. I do see a lot of "aggressive anti government" sentiment and I disagree with a lot of their points. However,
I also disagreed with the Chinese "Human Flesh Search" [2] and find it deeply troubling that our society has developed one of our own especially against people I disagree with.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pwo28t/rhermancainaward_finally_gets_their_hca/hei96e9/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pwo28t/rhe...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reddit-s-herman-cain-covid-award-depressing-sign-our-times-ncna1280616 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reddit-s-herman-cain-c...
[2] https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/sites/default/files/download/TPCS_212_Yu_2.pdf https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/sites/default/files/downlo...