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This is a losers life strategy: do anything anybody tells you to unless you can mount a vigorous rhetorical explanation for "why not". Generally speaking you s

This is a losers life strategy: do anything anybody tells you to unless you can mount a vigorous rhetorical explanation for "why not". Generally speaking you should be talked into things and have a good sense for when to proceed with caution. New pharmaceuticals aren't the same thing as pickin up nickels on the sidewalk.

ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
> This is a losers life strategy: do anything anybody tells you to unless you can mount a vigorous rhetorical explanation for "why not" More like a loser's life strategy is avoiding everything anybody tells you to avoid until someone can mount a vigorous explanation for why you should do it. If you have no reason to not get it, and "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it, ordinary people simply do the cost-benefit equation there and come to the conclusion that most people do: that getting it is better than not getting it
- peteradio 4y ago
  > "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it You are barking up the wrong tree if that is my upside. I get sick all the time, I got kids in daycare and school, its just a fact of life. I don't ever know what I got or if maybe I'm not getting enough sleep or a bit hungover. I don't need a pharmaceutical for anything that ails me, yet. Ordinary people under 50 doing the cost benefit analysis might rightly come to the conclusion that there is no medical or social benefit to getting the vaccine. Can you learn to respect that or is this vaccine really a must have for anybody?
  - ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
    - peteradio 4y ago
      I assert most people <50 made their decision sans data analysis, if that's true then I'm above the mean in that regard.
      - ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
        given that even you, someone who has decided not to receive a vaccination, are thusfar unable to articulate any significant downsides, it is unlikely that the average person would believe there to be any
        peteradio 4y ago
        Again, I make decisions based on some apparent upside. There's also no significant downside to twisting the door knob three times and knocking on the frame three times before entering any room.
        ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
        perhaps the reason most people behave differently is that they perform a more proper cost benefit equation, which doesn't minimize the upside, and doesn't have bias towards the "cost" end of the spectrum before any costs or benefits are actually added in

ImPostingOnHN 4y ago

> This is a losers life strategy: do anything anybody tells you to unless you can mount a vigorous rhetorical explanation for "why not" More like a loser's life strategy is avoiding everything anybody tells you to avoid until someone can mount a vigorous explanation for why you should do it. If you have no reason to not get it, and "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it, ordinary people simply do the cost-benefit equation there and come to the conclusion that most people do: that getting it is better than not getting it

peteradio 4y ago
> "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it You are barking up the wrong tree if that is my upside. I get sick all the time, I got kids in daycare and school, its just a fact of life. I don't ever know what I got or if maybe I'm not getting enough sleep or a bit hungover. I don't need a pharmaceutical for anything that ails me, yet. Ordinary people under 50 doing the cost benefit analysis might rightly come to the conclusion that there is no medical or social benefit to getting the vaccine. Can you learn to respect that or is this vaccine really a must have for anybody?
- ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
  - peteradio 4y ago
    I assert most people <50 made their decision sans data analysis, if that's true then I'm above the mean in that regard.
    - ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
      given that even you, someone who has decided not to receive a vaccination, are thusfar unable to articulate any significant downsides, it is unlikely that the average person would believe there to be any
      - peteradio 4y ago
        Again, I make decisions based on some apparent upside. There's also no significant downside to twisting the door knob three times and knocking on the frame three times before entering any room.
        ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
        perhaps the reason most people behave differently is that they perform a more proper cost benefit equation, which doesn't minimize the upside, and doesn't have bias towards the "cost" end of the spectrum before any costs or benefits are actually added in