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> accommodate people who, for no other reason than ignorance, If your “reasoning” relies upon the other people being “dumb” or “cruel” or <insert-your-invectiv
by bilsbie 9mo ago
> accommodate people who, for no other reason than ignorance,
If your “reasoning” relies upon the other people being “dumb” or “cruel” or <insert-your-invective>, you are almost certainly falling short of understanding why the controversy persists.
- dpe82 9mo agoYou created a straw man; the parent specifically wrote "ignorance" which is very different from "dumb" or "cruel".
- IncreasePosts 9mo agoWell, what do you call a person who refuses to even look at the evidence for why we know many vaccines work? That person is ignorant. Calling them ignorant to their face probably won't change their mind, but that's a different question
- justonceokay 9mo agoWhat if they just don’t value the abstract “public health”? To quote my mother, “there is no economy, there’s just my economy and it’s doing fine”. I think a large plurality (if not majority) of Americans think this way. If you do value public health then this viewpoint can seem cruel. But if you think like my mom then vaccines might as well be a government-mandated forehead tattoo.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoThen I'm not sure what we're talking about. It sounds like you agree with me and disagree with bilsbie that cruel people who see no value in protecting children from polio are the reason why the controversy persists.
- sieabahlpark 9mo ago[dead]
- IncreasePosts 9mo agoIt's not even talking about public health, it's talking about specific individuals health and the benefits of many vaccines for a specific individuals health. And your mom is pretty ignorant(oops, I said it again) if she thinks "her economy" isn't wrapped up in her neighbors economy, her towns economy, her states economy, her country's, economy, and the global economy.
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- justonceokay 9mo agoWhat I learned during Covid is that some people really want to blame someone else for when they get sick. Other people think of disease as inevitable and part of nature. The truth lies somewhere in between
- wavefunction 9mo agoIgnorance is neutral. It's not an assignation of blame, merely an acknowledgement of deficit.
- thomascgalvin 9mo agoThe anti-vax movement was built entirely on a foundation of fraud [1]. That leaves us with two main categories of people who are anti-vaccination: 1. People who are ignorant 2. People who are using anti-vax propaganda for some kind of gain In the US, category two have gone all-in on using category one to gain political power. The "health official" in this post is clearly in category two, and might be in category one as well, but he is absolutely deserving of invectives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield