We are living through an absolute crisis of anti-scientific, anti-vax hysteria that is getting kids killed. So sorry if I'm not going to make a special dispensation for your parents
You could've couched your defense of your parents in the acknowledgement of the fact that they were profoundly mistaken in that aspect of child rearing, but we're good in other aspects. Instead you dug in and couldn't admit that not vaccinating you was wrong
I'm not asking you to do anything, but I'm not gonna pretend it's okay to be antivax because you think you turned out okay. If you want people to get off your back acknowledging your parents were in the wrong and made a selfish decision at the expense of their community might go far
Your parents endangered people, that's what you don't get, appreciate, or care about. Selfish, just like your parents
5/x Platner is the latest incarnation of this. The dude may not have been an outright Nazi, but he had a totenkopf for decades. It seems implausible he didn't know what it was. He expressed a lot of racist viewpoints. Now he's running as a leftist. For a leftist, Platner is their hero's journey.
This is the most idiotic argument for AI consciousness you could make
The only tragedy is an evil empire economically crippling a country for 70 years, only for that small, poor country to have higher literacy rates and better healthcare outcomes than this stupid place
Cuba has never been a threat or problem for the US, it's the other way around
However I think it's enough to say stupid people do bad things, hence the need for shame to keep the mouth breathers in line. Do bad things = bad. Intentions are a secondary consideration ( I apply this to myself in life, it makes for some hard realizations but a lot of growth as well)
You're imposing a paradigm I'm not obligated to accept, but if you insist on those terms: their utter arrogance in the face of established scientific consensus led them into total idiocy, which led them to endanger their community. Arrogant, stupid, bad peopl
You at least gotta butter me up first
Fr, apparently his parents considered a century of established medical science vs a bunch of data-less hucksters and went "I'm going with the hucksters". This dude doesn't know what critical thinking looks like
I'm concerned with the results. Your parents are bad because their idiocy created bad conditions, "evil" isnt part of the equation
Wait you meant the other thing, nvm
For the last time I'm not posting hole
If you think my post meant I thought your parents literally uttered that it's clear I'm dealing with an apple that didn't fall far from the idiot tree
It's what they did
Your parents were bad because they are idiots, follow along
Yeah, a culture whose material relationships are mediated by nothing but opaque bureaucracy, contracts and user agreements leaves you with a population incapable organizing outside of structures you're trying to overcome. Feels crappy, but maybe we are just at the beginning of something (I hope)
There's also a genuine inability to conceive of working within a mass movement, which is simply the result of a pathologically individualized culture. I think people literally don't know what to do (me included, to a large extent, I'll admit!)
Dont forget, his parents also said "fuck every other child my kid comes into contact with"
Deep down I think you know your parents are credulous idiots, not gonna be lectured by someone about critical thinking who is sitting here defending anti-vax parents. Your parents should have been shamed into humiliation, we need to bring that back
No, my parents were good and smart, I was vaccinated and raised by people intelligent enough to be good. Your parents were too dumb to be good, even if their intentions were
Selfish people
Your parents endangered their whole community and are lesser for that
Graham Platner is an old friend but listen to him, he's totally impartial here
This is the guy who won't shut up about the widely discredited COVID lab leak theory. This is the guy who is calling everyone deeply unserious
Not very, evidently
These people are probably far too stupid to change, but they should at least be made to feel bad about themselves, because they are bad. This society desperately needs a healthy dose of shame
These are people with adulthood Oppositional Defiant Disorder, completely selfish and hopelessly ignorant. Total ostracization is the only path, they must be shamed into acting correctly
