Stupidity Is Spreading

[Revoltingest]

Yes, but we can unelect them.

But the voters still put them in office.
So an incompetent imperious government
still has this great power over us.

Something we cannot do with the CEOs of all kind of corporate conglomerates that rob us with impunity every day, just because under capitalism, they can. And in a modern inter-dependent culture we can't refuse to pay them.

If you don't like Wendy's, you can buy from Taco Bell.
If you don't like any of those, you can buy the ingredients
to cook your own food.
But with government, you have no alternative. And they
own you...they can draft you into the army, put you in
prison, or execute you on the street. Businesses don't
have anything remotely similar to such total power.

Government is not perfect.

On this we agree.
We need to de-fang it in many ways in order
to fully enjoy constitutional civil liberties.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

There are so many out there who speak of the “stupidity” of others… who are not as bright as they imagine themselves to be.

And there are others, the irresponsibly complicit, who need to demean the messenger in self defense.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The right to do stupid things doesn't mean stupid things should be done.
It's no longer just opposition to Covid 19 vaccination...it's all kinds.
Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.
Excerpted...

A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Most of the 81 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogen this year.

“That is what is causing this outbreak to spread like wildfire,” said Mysheika Roberts, director of the Columbus health department.

The Ohio outbreak, which began in November, comes at a time of heightened worry about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment, a long-standing problem that has led to drops in child immunization rates in pockets across the United States. The pandemic has magnified those concerns because of controversies and politicization around coronavirus vaccines and school vaccine mandates.

More than a third of parents with children under 18 — and 28 percent of all adults — now say parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) to attend public schools, even if remaining unvaccinated may create health risks for others, according to new polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research nonprofit.

Public sentiments against vaccine mandates have grown significantly since the pandemic, said Jen Kates, a Kaiser senior vice president. A 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center found that less than a quarter of parents — and 16 percent of all adults — opposed school vaccination requirements.

The growing opposition stems largely from shifts among people who identify as or lean Republican, the Kaiser survey found, with 44 percent saying parents should be able to opt out of those childhood vaccines — more than double the 20 percent who felt that way in 2019.

Important post! Thanks.

 

[Revoltingest]

There are so many out there who speak of the “stupidity” of others…

Refusing vaccination is what's "stupid".

 

[Revoltingest]

Important post! Thanks.

I hope we don't re-learn the usefulness
of vaccination as the result of children
dying from whooping cough, polio, &
such nearly vanquished diseases.

 

[Sand Dancer]

The right to do stupid things doesn't mean stupid things should be done.
It's no longer just opposition to Covid 19 vaccination...it's all kinds.
Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.
Excerpted...
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A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Most of the 81 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogen this year.

“That is what is causing this outbreak to spread like wildfire,” said Mysheika Roberts, director of the Columbus health department.

The Ohio outbreak, which began in November, comes at a time of heightened worry about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment, a long-standing problem that has led to drops in child immunization rates in pockets across the United States. The pandemic has magnified those concerns because of controversies and politicization around coronavirus vaccines and school vaccine mandates.

More than a third of parents with children under 18 — and 28 percent of all adults — now say parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) to attend public schools, even if remaining unvaccinated may create health risks for others, according to new polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research nonprofit.

Public sentiments against vaccine mandates have grown significantly since the pandemic, said Jen Kates, a Kaiser senior vice president. A 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center found that less than a quarter of parents — and 16 percent of all adults — opposed school vaccination requirements.

The growing opposition stems largely from shifts among people who identify as or lean Republican, the Kaiser survey found, with 44 percent saying parents should be able to opt out of those childhood vaccines — more than double the 20 percent who felt that way in 2019.

Too bad it doesn't just affect the unvaxxed children. Maybe the parents might rethink things when their children start dying. People can be so short sighted.

 

[Wildswanderer]

That is as a true statement and has proven to be prophetic

began with Reagan telling us that government is incompitant and should no longer be allowed to tell us what to do.[/QUOTE

 

[Revoltingest]

Too bad it doesn't just affect the unvaxxed children. Maybe the parents might rethink things when their children start dying. People can be so short sighted.

It's too bad that unvaxxed kids suffer
for their parents' dangerous beliefs.

 

[Heyo]

There are so many out there who speak of the “stupidity” of others… who are not as bright as they imagine themselves to be.

I suppose it is human nature to exaggerate one’s own strengths, and to compare one’s self to what is perceived to be “the lesser”… to obscure how flawed and pathetic one may actually be in reality.

 

[Heyo]

If eugenics is the goal, this is a very
haphazard way to not achieve it.

I don't see it as a goal. Evolution has no goals, just effects.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't see it as a goal. Evolution has no goals, just effects.

Eugenics has a goal...not evolution.

 

[Father Heathen]

There are so many out there who speak of the “stupidity” of others… who are not as bright as they imagine themselves to be.

I suppose it is human nature to exaggerate one’s own strengths, and to compare one’s self to what is perceived to be “the lesser”… to obscure how flawed and pathetic one may actually be in reality.

Haven't you done the very same here in regards to liberals or Satanic Temple members?

 

[SomeRandom]

These are your words, not mine.

You may describe yourself as “dumb”, yet even the most basic knowledge that you possess outshines a significant segment of the human population. I would not describe you or them as “stupid people”, for everyone has their strengths, intellectually… and their weaknesses. Even the most brilliant among us will forever be ignorant of many subjects.

But I am dumb.
I’m just being honest

I overall agree with your assessment.
And indeed not everyone who believes in “insert conspiracy theory here” is necessarily stupid or dumb.

Being ignorant or uneducated on certain topics is not a crime nor is it something we should be using to mock or otherwise insult others over.
However if a person actively elects to stay ignorant despite others offering information, instead choosing to stay in their own little echo chamber (which is extremely easy these days) then I think that person should be criticised for lacking intellectual curiosity.
Like it’s one thing to have biases. That’s just human nature.
I’m talking about someone who believes in say flat earth despite the evidence, for example. And indeed trying and failing to prove their theory right, only to double down and dig in their heels.
(That actually happened. There was a documentary recently where a bunch of flat earthers tried to prove the earth is not round, only to accidentally prove it was. And instead of having introspection, just doubled down. It’s…interesting lol)

Now I would call such phenomenon in humans stupidity. Perhaps that’s not the polite word for it. But it’s how I see it.

 

[PureX]

That is as a true statement and has proven to be prophetic

Sadly, only because we made it happen by believing the lies in the first place. But that's far to complicated for some folks to understand.

 

[FredVB]

Not getting COVID vaccinations which some choose is not the same as being against all vaccinations. Indeed, other vaccinations are not the same thing at all. Still, I for one do not call others with perspectives other than mine stupid. Almost anyone has different perspectives on many things than what I have for perspectives. But I respect those, as 'there but for the grace of God go I', in different circumstances I would think as they do, for some things anyway. And I remain open to there being some things still that I find are true that I didn't know, or that I was wrong about. It is how I kept growing and kept changing through my life until recently, and I don't assume it is over. I am still pretty sure I found things out that most others are not understanding. That is not stupidity, but if I share some relevant thing or other I know to another and that one doesn't come to see the same thing and will not even look into it, I can see how the ignorance is still willful.