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Re: We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

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>now admits those people were right the whole time Those people for sure aren't the anti-vaxers and anti maskers. It's about the consequences of the lockdown, school closings and operation postponings and it's pretty easy to point at that consequences if you can't compare them to the consequences without these measures. In Sweden they had similar admissions that their initial measures were wrong and they didn't have…

Yes — obviously Francis Collins, former director of NIH, just did the comparison wrong. And obviously the people you’re stereotyping were just “anti-vax” and “anti-mask”, not people who objected based on principle and were right. You’re a crank who can’t admit he was wrong.

If you fight vaccines and masks you are anti-vax and anti mask that's not a stereotype but just a description of their behavior.

An despite claiming otherwise, masks work as long as you and the people around wear them. The Cochrane study only showed that you can't escape the virus if it's everywhere because as soon you ket your guards down you get infected

And guess what helped to spread it everywhere.

Masks aren't dangerous and the benefit of the vaccines outweighs the risks compared to a corona infection.

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That's interesting because I remember lots of people fear masks and vaccines and refuse to use any of them even despite the mention of the higher goods. The ones vaccinated and masked didn't run, they stayed especially in the health sector.

Different set of "higher goods". I'm not a humanist. I'm a Christian. So going to church to worship God is more important than staying home to stay alive.

You can also praise God at home and I am pretty sure that He prefers it if you do not deliberately jeopardise His creation so that you may no longer be able to support your family and do His work.

Also what happened to "Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”?

Re: We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

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Hindsight is 20/20. Look what happened in Sweden, they say the same about their intial measures and lost more people in the first year of the pandemic than any other scandinavian country.

What’s their total mortality by comparison, now?

You mean after they got one of the highest vaccination rates in Europe?

Less excess mortality than countries with lower vaccination rates.

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They are the governing body of Gaza, and have been since 2006.

That's great. The claim was "the reason why such an attack happened is because the people who did the attack were the ruling government body of 2 million people for almost 2 decades". And that's transparent nonsense in service of the colonialists committing genocide right now. Do you disagree?

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Are you alluding to Allies vs Axis? Because I don't think US have invaded a country unilaterally in that war. It would be similar if Mexico/Canada/Cuba together declared war at US and then Russia joined them. Because then sure Russia can have a decent chance of successfully invading US across a sea and then strong military could make a difference. But Mexico and Canada won't and countries who could are inconveniently…

The US has had territorial wars with both Canada and Mexico.

Was it the aggressor or the defender?

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Hamas is the ruling body in Gaza.

They're a fig leaf and asset [1] for those who use them as an excuse for collective punishment and genocide. With predictable and predicted [2] results. [1] Smotrich: "In the context of delegitimization, Hamas is an asset and the authority is a burden" -- https://twitter.com/pgosh_MTP/status/1741169302051402195 [2] https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/17417897483670733...

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Re: We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

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You don't have to engage with people here, but if you do, you owe them (and everyone else here) more civility than this.

How is that not civil? And if someone says "it seems you're excusing killing Jews", I actually do have to respond to that. You see problem with one and not the other, that's noted.

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They're a fig leaf and asset [1] for those who use them as an excuse for collective punishment and genocide. With predictable and predicted [2] results. [1] Smotrich: "In the context of delegitimization, Hamas is an asset and the authority is a burden" -- https://twitter.com/pgosh_MTP/status/1741169302051402195 [2] https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/17417897483670733...

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Re: We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

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Does that mean you get good feelings from being unselfish?

No, not really. Following my values usually feels neutral. Sometimes it feels absolutely terrible. What I'm trying to tell you is that this is an intrinsic goal, not an instrumental goal. If you were to ask me, "why do you have values?" or "why do you follow your values?" I wouldn't even know how to answer, it would be like asking a fish why it swims.

> No, not really.

Then why do you do it? How would you feel if you did act selfishly?

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