• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    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.

    edit: subject-verb agreement

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      10 months ago

      If only they were islands to themselves and didn’t take innocent people down with them in pursuit of their Darwin Awards

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        10 months ago

        If you are a liberal and a vegetarian then you do not eat meat. If you are a conservative and a vegetarian you are the only one allowed to eat meat.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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

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        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.

        Couldn’t they just do that?

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        10 months ago

        It’s really too bad that Covid wasn’t deadlier. Can we get Covid Classic back?

        Super Covid?

        Airborne Ebola?

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      10 months ago

      The worst part is they aren’t hurting themselves, since they were vaccinated as children, but their kids will suffer instead

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        10 months ago

        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? 

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          No 3 year old is an anti-vaxxer, silly goose. They’re unvaccinated because their parents are anti-vaxxers.

          Unvaccinated does not equal anti-vax. Are you able to grasp that?