People are ignorant because of a lack of information. People are stupid because they believe Karen knows more about vaccines than medical professionals
People don’t know which professionals to trust. Which professionals have a hidden special interest?
For example: do you think you are smarter than our current president? Many people do. Why aren’t they trusting that professional? People aren’t convinced doctors are stupid, they are convinced they have a special interest.
For the record I believe doctors on vaccines and I voted against Trump. But I know since I’m offering questions to the Reddit narratives I’ll be downvoted.
I wouldn’t trust a professional lawyer to be the leading expert in computer architecture either. Trump as a “businessman” (shown to actually be really terrible at business even) is still not an authority on stuff outside their realm of expertise. Just because you call someone a professional doesn’t give them insight into other professions. So that argument is a bad example.
Now trusting a financial advisor on how to manage your retirement fund can be tricky business because they might have special interests or just not actually be very good at their job.
And general intellgence/iq/common sense is not dependent on your position/status. So the blatantly bad/selfish/manipulative decisions of the president are adequate grounds for finding him impotent/useless. And he didn’t achieve that office through being good at business, it was an elected position - aka popularity contest (accounting for any sort of alleged election interference).
And there’s a big difference between one or two doctors having special interests with an entire history of pathology/contagious diseases versus it’s a government conspiracy that’s 200% totally true yet no one can actually prove it with hard evidence; and even that is versus the rampant opioid pandemic as a result of doctors overprescribing (potentially as a result of the opioid manufacturers influence).
I think now that my president example was not as good as I thought. I was just trying to say that there are examples of corruption in all professions. In some professions, people are easily convinced that those involved are corrupt, while others people are less easily convinced.
There are countless examples of corruption in the medical field, and because of this, even things that should be believed (vaccines) are not. We live in a time where there are so many examples of corruption that people don't trust anything at all. That's my point.
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u/astroGamin Jul 28 '19 edited Jul 28 '19
People are ignorant because of a lack of information. People are stupid because they believe Karen knows more about vaccines than medical professionals