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Originally Posted by strombad
Ok, re-evaluate yourself for a moment here and you're going to see quite quickly where you've gone wrong. Use your two degrees and all 3 of your stats classes.
You're defending the right to question vaccinations. That's all well and dandy. But you know what you're also doing? Defending it against people who AREN'T ATTACKING IT. You yourself have claimed to be playing devil's advocate, but the problem here is that NOBODY is saying that it's wrong/stupid to question vaccinations, nobody. What people are saying is that whether you question them or not, all the evidence in the end points to getting your children vaccinated.
It's not about questioning those vaccinations, this "mob mentality" you're speaking down to is about NO vaccinations. It's about parents who REFUSE to vaccinate their children. If those same parents did exactly what you're "defending" and logically questioned vaccinations instead of writing them off, they would see the benefits and see that the large reasons for the anti-vax movement (autism, namely) are not scientifically supported.
Your problem is you. You are defending something nobody is attacking, and wondering why people are attributing what your defending to the actual conversation. Of course people are going to make leaps in judgement, because your current platform either A) isn't logical or B) isn't relevant to the conversation.
Anti-vaccination people aren't analysing the data and studying the benefits/effects of vaccinations. So yes, everyone has the right to question everything. Great, if you're done defending that, can we discuss anti-vaccination people? The cause for this "mob mentality"?
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re-evaluate myself on what? Multiple people completely and utterly misinterpreted what I said and made assumptions about my beliefs that were utterly false when I specifically stated they were otherwise. This is a great rhetorical post and all but I'm not going to re-evaluate myself when people are telling me what I belief and what I said when I stated the exact opposite.
This isn't a miscommunication, this is ignoring what I said and telling me what I believe. If you can't see maybe why I'd be mildly perturbed about that then I don't know what to say.
my current platform? I don't have one, I just want to know more and cringe when people assert that anyone who would dare not get vaccinated is a threat to society and are intellectually inferior. Not saying you did that but it's happened on many occasions in here.