r/EverythingScience • u/PostHeraldTimes • 18d ago

Medicine Anti-Vaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'

https://www.latintimes.com/anti-vaxx-mom-whose-daughter-died-measles-says-disease-wasnt-that-bad-578871
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u/enoughwiththebread 18d ago

Bingo. It would be far too psychologically painful to accept that reality, so deflection and denial it is.

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u/workerbotsuperhero 18d ago

Honestly sounds like a microcosm of much of the psychology involved, for the demographic supporting politicians like RFK. 

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u/Luxpreliator 17d ago

It's most people to be honest. It's just having wider reaching consequences now with Maga.

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u/fisher23456 18d ago

This is beyond infuriating. There needs to be another set of laws that prevent sociopaths from having children. This country has created so many selfish asshats who just cannot continue to procreate. I cannot fathom not only putting my child in harms way, and THEN, denying my full culpability in their death. These people have no redemption and need to be put down.

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u/sergio-von-void 18d ago

I agree with the overall sentiment (short of death penalties, at least), but the issue with this is that it means someone gets to decide who is and is not allowed to have children. It's hardly even a stone toss from that to eugenics or any number of other kinds of abuses of such a system. With the way world governments seem to be swinging lately, making procreation a privelege that governmental bodies can allow or deny is a very dangerous gamble.

There 1000% needs to be something done to hold people like them accountable, but allowing governments a reason to strip or suspend individual liberties is historicaly not a line of action that leads anywhere good. Especially not at times of civil unrest, such as what many of us are experiencing now.

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u/fisher23456 18d ago

I’m with you and I think my frustration took over my rational mind. I am just so tired of trying to have to even entertain this idiocy. I guess my primary issue is that not vaccinating, and then, not taking accountability for the outcome, not only impacts the life of your child, but then it impacts the lives of (potentially) countless other innocents. It THEN creates a precedent for other people to not take accountability for their actions, and the situation repeats. It frustrates me even further when these are the same people who are “pro-life.” This is the antithesis to basic human decency and the actual tenets of what is taught in the Bible (reverting back to the pro-life folks.) I just wish that there were some way to differentiate these folks from others who have the wellbeing of other people/families in mind. Otherwise, we all get penalized and have to suffer as a result. Maybe there is a way to rectify these issues, I just haven’t found it myself.

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u/sergio-von-void 18d ago edited 17d ago

Agreed on every word of this one. If I knew a better way, I'd happily share with the class...so here's to hoping people more clever than myself can figure something out before too long ig :(

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u/Jibber_Fight 17d ago

Give them measles

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u/corruptredditjannies 17d ago

They're not necessarily sociopaths, at least by the technical definition. They can just be so extremely emotional that they can't face reality. Selfishness and ego are a bigger issue.

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u/stackered 18d ago

And this is why we have Trump again. Because an entire party couldn't admit they were wrong.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 18d ago

The same sort of behavior that causes parents to not believe their kid is being molested because it’s easier to deny that reality than admit a family member or spouse is capable of sexually abusing their kid. It’s shitty and awful and I understand why it happens but that doesn’t excuse it.

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u/Beautiful-Elephant34 15d ago

Yeah, they’re never going to admit they were wrong because it would break them psychologically (more than they already are).