“EVERYBODY HAS TO DIE.”
That’s because if he acknowledges he was wrong he also has to acknowledge he let his daughter die through neglect.
Not so hard to understand really.
We can simultaneously acknowledge that this idiot let his daughter die and that he will pay the ultimate price for that stupidity every day for the rest of his life.
If its your god’s plan to unnecessarily murder innocent children, then your god can go fuck itself
That kid sadly became a victim of her parents belief that opinions are better than facts.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
No shit. His choices are to either double down or admit to himself that he killed his daughter.
He is mentally ill. His child should have been taken away from him long before this happened.
Unfortunately, thanks to millions of people as mentally ill as he is, who inject the conservative propaganda machine directly into their brain stem, she may not have been much better off in foster care…
The kids don’t deserve to die, but the parents deserve to lose them.
If he had gotten her the vaccine, what was she going to do? Die harder?
She was gonna turn into a gay frog, duh
Ignorance is dangerous.
Another line of thought: this is severe negligence, leading to death. Throw this guy in jail for homicide.
This is why pseudoscience at all levels is dangerous to a modern society. Including “harmless” shit like astrology. It encourages magical thinking and the disregard of science in favor of belief in something that “feels right.”
Take that to its logical conclusion, and people die.
Astrology? Of all things, why point fingers at that? Give me one example on why it may lead to dangerous conclusions.
I pointed at that for the exact reason you think: because people believe it’s harmless.
What it does is erode the critical thinking abilities of a population. If you can believe that giant balls of gas millions of light years away that aren’t even close to one another but only appear to form shapes when viewed from one specific angle, can have an affect on events on this planet, then you can be convinced of literally anything.
It’s no different than religion. It’s magical thinking, and as we have seen, it breaks people’s brains.
Read “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan for a much better explanation of my position. This book should be required reading by every adult imo.
They already did.
It leads to magical thinking.
That’s a generalization, not an example. What does that even mean or tries to mean?
Astrology also was used by Ronald Reagan, president of the United States, to help decide important issues.
I think that’s good proof it’s fucking dangerous.
This is the way. “Food has stuff in it we don’t trust, so I stopped feeding her.”
These people do, sincerely, need to be incarcerated.
It’s not going to happen, though, under this or even under any administration under the current Democratic party.
under this or even under any administration under the current Democratic party.
Pardon? Which Democrats are you referring to with respect to the story at hand? What made you bring them up?
You’re kind of bad at this.
The current Democratic party, as opposed to the one from, say, the 80’s.
The current leadership of the Democratic party are, and have been for several years, not an effective foil to the far right; they’ve been failing. Since Reagan they’ve been letting Republican administrations stack courts, block progressive legislation, failing to block conservative legislation, and just been all-around failures.
Why are the courts stacked with conservative judges? Why do we have literal criminals sitting, unimpeached, on the Supreme Court? Why do we have a felon in the White House? Why did 10 Democrats just give Republicans the votes they needed to Push through a spending bill that cedes even more power to Trump? Why is the country riddled with Gerrymandered states ensuring Republican control even in states where they don’t hold a majority of votes? Why, in the past 4 elections where a Republican has won the Presidency, has only one won the popular vote? Why is no-one in Congress standing up for Palestine? Why is anti-vax so popular? Where. The fuck. Is. The Democratic leadership?
You’re kind of bad at this.
Oh! An ad hominem attack. That’s… unsurprising.
Yeah… that wasn’t an ad hominem attack, just an observation.
“We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much.”
I want to know what he heard and saw about vaccines, and where he heard and saw it.
I think a lot of the issues in these extremely conservative communities is due to them being unable to rectify the contradictions between religious beliefs and the scientific method.
Probably has less to do with religion and more with not being able to distinguish between reputable and non reputable sources.
if it’s not from the church it’s not reputable, and they’re trained that way by the church from the moment they’re kids.
I live in a country where nobody goes to church (France) and we have the same crazy persons.
And I go to church and I’m fully onboard with science, including vaccinations. So it’s not church that’s the problem, but people being dumb, which neither faith nor atheism can fix.
Seriously, what exactly do you think “religious faith” is, if not strongly believing in something despite lack of evidence (i.e., exactly the antithesis of the Scientific Method)?
I’m just saying, there’s plenty of secular anti-vaxxers who just believe it because they saw it on Facebook and don’t understand that anyone can post whatever nonsense they want on there without repercussions.
