I admire your stance on respecting other people’s beliefs…but when it comes to anti-vaccination, it’s a little like respecting people’s right to drive drunk.
There are so many life-damaging consequences for innocent bystanders who had no input on the initial decision, such as the loss of herd immunity, the development of super-bugs, and the potential to infect (read: straight-up kill) individuals with compromised immune systems, e.g., chemo patients and HIV+ people.
However, it IS extremely distasteful the way that the BSL folks turn on each other so viciously. I can’t imagine using the “R-word” in any context, but especially when trying to make a serious point to someone I’d previously been friends with!
On a lighter note, as I said on Follies, I’m super-hoping that the DBO types keep splitting and splitting into smaller fringe subsets (maybe David Icke followers who think lizard-people are actually pitbull-people? Breatharians who believe that the only reason people can’t exist on sunlight is that pitbulls are stealing their life-essence?) until they’re just a bunch of isolated weirdos.
And maybe then each individual starts to fight with HIMSELF, and split and split…until they turn into butter, a la ‘Sam and the Tigers’?
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