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Originally Posted by rubecube
Okay, so if someone says to you that they believe that vaccines cause autism, do you sit there with a completely open mind and think "Well I'm sure this will be completely logical and convincing," or is your first thought likely "This person is an anti-science doofus?" If you're the former, then I guess congratulations, you're a better person than I am, but I think most people come to any discussion with preconceived notions about the other side based on past experiences, researching the other side, etc.
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You're comparing unjustified opposition to a scientific position, which is developed based on a scientific process, to a sociological diagnosis? Come on, man. This is politics. It's human interaction. There's a huge difference between these things, and you do not have all the right answers when it comes to culture, society, and morality. There's an argument that there
are no right answers - I reject that argument, personally, but the fact that it's even defensible should tell you something about the landscape we're dealing with here.
And again, you're doing the same thing repeatedly. You might as well have compared my lack of certainty about the relative importance of various causes leading to disproportionate violent encounters between police and black people to a lack of certainty about whether the Earth is flat. Leaving aside your own erroneous level of certainty and Mill's warning about dead dogmas... do you not get how insulting, how condescending that is? Again, why would anyone who doesn't already agree with you want to talk to you about this stuff, given the way you talk about it?