Anti-vaxers will hit a lot of these points; they'll just surround it in five layers of nutjob stuff. Just like other reactionaries will have a legitimate grievance here and there (e.g., the cost of living is too damn high) but will misdiagnose the causes/belive a bunch of crank shit, too.
In theory, if you find a few of those actually real points to agree on, you can start down the path of bringing someone around.
I don't know... calling your points above "anti-vax" is like calling having issues with the US gov spending taxpayer dollars on SpaceX to be "flat earther".
Like yeah a flat earther could conceivably be angry about their tax dollars going to Elon Musk's rockets and yeah an anti-vaxxer could conceivably hold all those viewpoints you brought up, but they hold them for wildly different reasons than anyone here would, and anti-vax refers to a pretty specific movement with pretty specific viewpoints behind them.
Yeah none of this remotely justifies being anti-vax. It's just excuses to refuse to do basic things to protect yourself and others. It's like listing all the ways that cars cause pollution then refusing to wear a seatbelt.
I wouldn't characterize this position as remotely close to anything an anti-vaxer thinks
Anti-vaxers will hit a lot of these points; they'll just surround it in five layers of nutjob stuff. Just like other reactionaries will have a legitimate grievance here and there (e.g., the cost of living is too damn high) but will misdiagnose the causes/belive a bunch of crank shit, too.
In theory, if you find a few of those actually real points to agree on, you can start down the path of bringing someone around.
I don't know... calling your points above "anti-vax" is like calling having issues with the US gov spending taxpayer dollars on SpaceX to be "flat earther".
Like yeah a flat earther could conceivably be angry about their tax dollars going to Elon Musk's rockets and yeah an anti-vaxxer could conceivably hold all those viewpoints you brought up, but they hold them for wildly different reasons than anyone here would, and anti-vax refers to a pretty specific movement with pretty specific viewpoints behind them.
Yeah none of this remotely justifies being anti-vax. It's just excuses to refuse to do basic things to protect yourself and others. It's like listing all the ways that cars cause pollution then refusing to wear a seatbelt.
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