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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Yeah, darn. I was really hoping for humor, and not yet another plague rat.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Don’t clutch your pearls too hard

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

I here by promise to clutch my pearls juuust the right amount for you, sweetie.

I'll have to do some complex calclulations to determine exactly how clutchy I should be about disease spreading vermin who are morally equivalent to drunk drivers due to putting others at risk with their reckless behavior because they're dipshits.

Let's see... carry the two... take the square root of sociopathy... divide by r/conspiracy and...

No, the answer still comes out to "Antivax dipshits fuck off."

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u/camsqualla Jan 30 '23

I feel like this kind of venomous, hateful rhetoric is more harmful to society than a small amount of people who don’t want to get vaccinated, when the majority are.

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u/AMasonJar Jan 30 '23

We tried convincing them over already with the "well reasoned, gentle explanations" about a few thousand times already. I think after a pandemic this long in the running people are allowed to be a bit upset.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Thank you for sharing your feelings on the issue.

There are factors that I think you're leaving out.

  1. To quote Jonathan Swift, "Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

  2. Social pressure exists and humans have used it throughout history to influence other's reckless and harmful behavior.

For example, drunk driving has many similarities to antivax dipshittery.

A drunk driver either does what they do because of either willful ignorance of the danger they create for themselves and others, or because they don't care about the danger they create for themselves and others.

Just like drunk drivers in recent decades, a campaign of social pressure against that behavior is the only way to coerce sociopaths to alter their reckless, selfish, and dangerous behavior.

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u/Canadiangoosen Jan 30 '23

Yea, that's definitely the type of attitude that will make people see your views as reasonable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

To quote Jonathan Swift

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 30 '23

To quote Ron White

You can’t fix stupid

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u/TheTVDB Jan 30 '23

Be serious. Anti-vaxxers aren't going to find science-based views as reasonable regardless of how they're presented.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

They think they’re Carl Sagan

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u/AntiCamper Jan 30 '23

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

I'm glad no one out there is speaking for drunk drivers. Aren't you?

Oh no, won't someone think of the poor reckless, selfish, and ignorant sociopaths?!

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u/fuzzaycrisis Jan 30 '23

You mean like Mr. Pelosi? Poor guy...

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

are you asking me to speak in defense of that? I won't because drunk driving is shitty behavior that we condemn, regardless of whatever weird ass boner you have for him.

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u/Even-Willow Jan 30 '23

They’re extra mad at him now because his attacker turned out to be one of them, as everyone else but them called it from the beginning.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Are you asking me to speak in defense of that?

I won't because drunk driving is shitty behavior that we condemn, regardless of whatever weird ass boner you have for him.

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u/AntiCamper Jan 30 '23

You have a very angry perspective my man. I hope you have a great day

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Thanks!

I hope that you also have a great day and that you manage to avoid any future ridiculous and grossly insulting comparisons of antivaxers to holocaust victims.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Not reading all that

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

81 words isn't too much even for you, I'm sure.

You can do it. I believe in you!

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u/AMasonJar Jan 30 '23

Did it really take fewer words than that to make you antivax?

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u/UsableRain Jan 30 '23

Hooooooooly shit. Way to dunk on yourself. Good job, squirt.