I feel for the guy. It's terrible to be sick with something you fear is mortal.
I wouldn't argue the toss with him, considering the position he is in and how he must feel.
Perhaps I shouldn't say anything, but his tweet seems to provide an example of a style of thinking that some people have of thinking in logical fallacies that seems to have gotten them into trouble, so maybe it might help to identify it.
I'm not trying to be nasty here either.
It seems to me that this poor fellow might be generalizing about vaccine refuseniks being conspiracy theorists to make a cynical/humorous point, but behind it could be an assumption that vaccine refuseniks are in fact conspiracy theorists. That's what humour is about right? Taking something real and making it ridiculous? I.e. he's making a joke/point that nutter conspiracy believers are better off than people who trust in rational science - or something like that.
But there's an error at the heart of his point/joke, and that is that vaccine refuseniks are not all irrational conspiracy theorists. In fact, most of them probably aren't.
So how did he arrive at that understanding?
In part, I submit that he probably got there through believing propaganda which was riddled with logical fallacies such as hasty generalizations and/or gross exaggerations of perceived negative characteristics of the opposition to create an inaccurate negative impression, etc, etc.
In the real world, I'm pretty sure that most of us didn't decline the vaccines because we thought they were being pushed on us by a cabal of literal lizard people in skin suits, or whatever. Instead, I'd bet that most of us probably refused the shots because we hate being lied to and manipulated by slimy lizards in suits of the more mundane and psychopathic human variety.
In this day and age, it seems like one has to read between the lines on everything, because the 'authorities/elites' simply cannot be trusted. It's just a fact man. There's a reason why trust in institutions of all descriptions was low before covid world came along.
And if you believed them, and they managed to knife you, they'd just turn around and say it was your own stupid fault for believing them. Government in Oz, for example, has this down to an art - core vs non-core election promises etc.
I bet trust is even lower now after this. I don't think that makes me, or the poor fellows with busted hears conspiracy theorists. Just realists.
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Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-11 08:05 am (UTC)I wouldn't argue the toss with him, considering the position he is in and how he must feel.
Perhaps I shouldn't say anything, but his tweet seems to provide an example of a style of thinking that some people have of thinking in logical fallacies that seems to have gotten them into trouble, so maybe it might help to identify it.
I'm not trying to be nasty here either.
It seems to me that this poor fellow might be generalizing about vaccine refuseniks being conspiracy theorists to make a cynical/humorous point, but behind it could be an assumption that vaccine refuseniks are in fact conspiracy theorists. That's what humour is about right? Taking something real and making it ridiculous? I.e. he's making a joke/point that nutter conspiracy believers are better off than people who trust in rational science - or something like that.
But there's an error at the heart of his point/joke, and that is that vaccine refuseniks are not all irrational conspiracy theorists. In fact, most of them probably aren't.
So how did he arrive at that understanding?
In part, I submit that he probably got there through believing propaganda which was riddled with logical fallacies such as hasty generalizations and/or gross exaggerations of perceived negative characteristics of the opposition to create an inaccurate negative impression, etc, etc.
In the real world, I'm pretty sure that most of us didn't decline the vaccines because we thought they were being pushed on us by a cabal of literal lizard people in skin suits, or whatever. Instead, I'd bet that most of us probably refused the shots because we hate being lied to and manipulated by slimy lizards in suits of the more mundane and psychopathic human variety.
In this day and age, it seems like one has to read between the lines on everything, because the 'authorities/elites' simply cannot be trusted. It's just a fact man. There's a reason why trust in institutions of all descriptions was low before covid world came along.
And if you believed them, and they managed to knife you, they'd just turn around and say it was your own stupid fault for believing them. Government in Oz, for example, has this down to an art - core vs non-core election promises etc.
I bet trust is even lower now after this. I don't think that makes me, or the poor fellows with busted hears conspiracy theorists. Just realists.
The Ninth Mouse