I’m well past feeling bad for stupid people who die needless and preventable deaths, and I’m well past feeling anything but hostility towards those who, through stubborn and willful ignorance, would threaten my life and the lives of those I care for, not to mention everyone else around them— especially the elderly and infirmed.
it’s as simple as that, and any equivocation on these points is just them trying to pass responsibility for their own social and moral failures onto others. and for that, fuck them.
that’s one of the things about conservative philosophy, especially today, is the subscription to the concept of solipsism, at least to the part f that philosophy which states that nothing outside of the self exists, not really, except as a projection of the self. meaning, in actuality, everything one sees and experiences is, in actuality, simply part of one’s imagination— a “projection” on one’s ego whose existence is purely to fulfill a need of the self and is represented/projected as such.
it’s a particularly sociopathic and self-serving view of the world, which illustrates very quickly the types of people it attracts as an ideology and those to whom it’s an easy and quick defense.
I wish it were that simple. But those people are going to take up hospital beds, nurses, doctors, etc away from people who got vaccinated (or couldn’t due to medical conditions). They’ll drive up medical prices even more. They’ll spread their diseases to those with compromised immune systems.
I don’t feel sorry for them, but they’ll harm and kill others on their way out.
perhaps you missed the part where I nether pity them, accept their excuses or equivocations, or accept, in any way, any reason for their refusal of their civic, social, or moral responsibilities? because when you say:
I wish it were that simple
please explain wtf you mean that I didn’t address pretty explicitly in my first comment
As for driving insurance prices. I remember there was a law that was introduced in NY that allowed insurance to do that. Everyone was saying it was symbolic, because they already could set different prices for unvaccinated.
Unfortunately, we're talking about child vaccination rates rapidly dropping. I don't know about you, but I have never met a 3 month old or a 3 year old anti-vaxxer. As much as I disagree with their parents' decision (I'm immunocompromised), I hate that innocent children are going to face the cruel brunt of what is coming.
So you admit you’ve never met a three-year-old anti-vaxxer while also admitting it was their parents’ decision… How am I supposed to respond to such a self-contradictory and anti-intellectual comment as that?