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  • If there are no societal roadblocks to prevent anti-vaxx parents raising their children to also be anti-vaxxers, then the cycle of misinformation will only get worse as time progresses.

    right, but people don’t get socialized or educated by their doctors, doctors are like gatekeepers for medicine and surgeries that you get to see in very short windows of time once a year … withholding access to medicine and surgery is not going to help the situation

    Regardless, parents should not have the ability to prevent their children from getting vaccinations on the basis of their own unscientific beliefs.

    right, but the flip side is that you’re OK with foregoing the individual’s right to opt in or out of a medical procedure … I haven’t read enough bioethics to arrive at some kind of position on this, but I don’t think either side is obviously right - on the one hand individual liberties being protected results in more overall harm and deaths from fewer vaccinations; on the other hand ignoring individual liberties is authoritarian and can create medical trauma, as well as may backfire and result in greater resistance.

    Either way, we need to solve this on a societal level through education, developing greater trust in biomedicine, and probably by penalizing the grifters who profit from promoting anti-vaxx anxieties.






  • OP is definitely wrong about rich people not dating middle class people or poor people, etc. - rich people are sorta immune to giving a shit, they are insulated. Aristocrats may have been forced to marry strategically rather than for love, but that’s not really about being rich per se.

    Maybe some middle-upper-class people try to emulate aristocratic norms about not mingling that way, tbh I feel like the middle class in general is all about proving they aren’t poor, it’s ironically very typical of poor culture to work so hard to not seem poor - rich people aren’t like that and even try to intentionally blend in around others and not show their wealth.




  • when you really think about it, since there are really so few rich people, you start to realize you don’t personally know any rich people, and you may have never even met a rich person, and then you realize everything in your life is for poor (i.e. not-rich) people

    EDIT:

    • roads
    • grocery stores
    • movie theaters
    • gas stations
    • libraries
    • hospitals
    • water treatment facilities
    • sports stadiums

    everything is built by us and used by us - rich people have their own doctors, live on their own compounds, hire their own chefs, and transport themselves mostly by private jets, etc. - they don’t wait in line for TSA, they don’t cook their own meals, they don’t drive places, etc.

    on the flip side, you also start to realize how wealth and power has influenced the creation of the society you live in, like how US colonial food culture was influenced by major agricultural trusts, how drinking at bars became one of the only “third places”, or how US cities were destroyed by parking requirements under the influence of the auto industry


  • the anti-vaxxers or the doctors who are willing to treat them?

    to be honest, the current evidence we have about clinical best practices actually supports doctors not trying to convince anti-vaxxers, so in some sense I can see a way of defending “(anti-)vaccine-friendly” clinical practice, as a way to ensure they have some biomedical healthcare - not just out of concern for the health and well-being of the anti-vaxxers (who deserve to live and be healthy despite their self-destructive and ignorant practices), but also for the health and well-being of the society who is threatened and burdened when other people get sick

    there are social and economic costs to illness, and it is a situation in which we have to be invested in one another’s health

    (this ironically makes being anti-vaxx all the more anti-social and unethical, but the solution to anti-vaxx and anti-science movements should be invested in the well-being of everyone)




  • even if that’s true, telling them this doesn’t help them or solve their ignorance - just a thought that we can have more or less useful reactions to ignorance, we don’t want to incentivize doubling down on false beliefs for example

    EDIT: I thought you wrote “you’re an idiot” in response to the person claiming the US defeated the Nazis, nevermind.

    Most Europeans in 1945 believed the USSR toppled Nazi Germany, it really is only after the USSR collapsed four decades later and the US took global supremacy that people started to say things like the US defeated the Nazis.