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If your views on Covid overrule your parents love for you then there wasn’t much love in the first place.
by mbrodersen 5y ago
If your views on Covid overrule your parents love for you then there wasn’t much love in the first place.
- Toutouxc 5y agoI know what you mean, but this is actually not the case. I had a wonderful childhood and my parents are caring, loving people who supported me throughout uni and have always been, I believe, quite proud of me. Somewhere around 2019-2020 they both got hit by this huge wall of Qanon, pro-Russia and later anti-vax propaganda all mixed together into one clusterfuck conspiracy theory and they've been riding that wave since. That's the most terrifying thing about all this, they're both very normal and above-average intelligent people, my mum even has a master's degree.
- mbrodersen 5y agoIt is astonishing to me as well that conspiracy theories can fool even well educated intelligent people. I guess that the real reason why is because people are not that rational. Most human decisions are driven by values/feelings and then rationalised after the fact. That’s why you can have equally educated/intelligent people violently disagreeing about the interpretation of the same facts. This might help: https://streetepistemology.com/ https://streetepistemology.com/