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It isn't insane that some people won't take the vaccine. It isn't insane that some people are against vaccine mandates. It is insane that some people believe
by bckr 5y ago
It isn't insane that some people won't take the vaccine.
It isn't insane that some people are against vaccine mandates.
It is insane that some people believe what they do about the vaccine: That it's a ploy to decimate the population, that it contains baby parts and poison, or microchips, that it is a test run for the mark of the beast.
That is absolutely batshit insane.
- Izkata 5y agoOne of the key features of the mark of the beast is the inability to buy or sell goods without taking it. By way of vaccine passports, that already happened, so yeah that fear does have a foundation.
- kurisufag 5y agoThe 'mark of the beast' is, if I'm not incorrect, a fictional idea that is (perhaps intentionally) incredibly easy to generalize with. Identification with fictional texts is best left to High School English class instead of the real-world decision making process.
- openfuture 5y agoPeople sometimes use weird domain specific languages, the principle of charity goes a long way in being able to understand peoples' concerns despite the weird way they communicate them. I hate how easily we dismiss people with nonstandard language usage. Grow up.
- kurisufag 5y agoI agree with what he's probably attempting to say -- widespread requirement of vaccine passports is absurd, and functionally locks people out of society. Regardless, his comment didn't just use it as an example. Without further interpretation, the entire body of his point was that what is happening now is similar to a fictional thing that happened in a fictional story. Whether or not you agree with the point, it's so absurdly general that it has about the same meaning as, say, comparing Biden to Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThere is difference between religion and pop culture. One person's fiction is another people's truth. This isn't reddit.
- kurisufag 5y agoI live my life by the way of Master Splinter, as we all should. Every day I hone my Ninjitsu so that whenever evil approaches, whether it be in the form of Shredder or Krang or an argumentative poster on Hacker News, I will be prepared. The only difference is the level at which people attempt to integrate the philosophy into their life -- I'm sure there is someone out there who has been impacted more by Terry Pratchett novels than the religion they were brought up as, and using either of those in the way the instigating poster did would be silly.
- bckr 5y ago> that already happened If you have evidence of people being unable to buy or sell goods without a vaccine passport, please share. Oh, and do recall that the context from Revelation is that a person was completely excluded from the economy, not that they lost some privileges, so please don't waste time with false equivalences. Although, honestly, it's probably a waste of time anyway: I just don't live in the same fantasy dimension as these people and their arguments hold no water to me.
- miketery 5y agoI 100% agree. The issue at hand is that those insane people are a small fringe, there are many people who hold slight skepticism, and they are quickly labelled insane and grouped with the fringe. That's not a good thing for a healthy society.