Sympthsical
10. But we don't do it for other things that often
If a smoker dies of lung cancer, most people think, "That's a horrible way to go." We don't laugh and high five about it.
If an obese person dies of hypertension or any of the other countless maladies associated with it, we don't hop on message boards discussing how much they deserved it and how happy we are to see them gone for their ignorance and refusal to be healthy.
I just don't see all this as much different.
It's all just very sad. I wish people would've made different choices.
We do this with Covid because we have decided it's socially and politically acceptable to be this callous about it.
Now make threads of fat people dying. See how that one goes.
They're still choices people make. They still cost us money in the health care system. We still have people advocating for it (healthy at any size!). But we don't do that. When someone makes poor choices and dies, we feel sad about it. Well, most of us do, most of the time. If we're empathetic humans.
This nastiness is born of pure politics. Mainly, I think, because the unvaxxed are seen as mostly on the Right. They're not, but that's the Narrative. So it's ok to be nasty about it and them. There are other populations, Democratic demographic populations, that are also way undervaxxed.
Where are those threads of celebration and jokes?
Exactly. If you wouldn't behave that way towards your friends and family, don't do it at all. And if you do behave that way with your friends, I don't want to be yours.
Whoever this primitive is, at least they said something the other primitives should embrace and make part of their lives on this topic.
But then we get this answer.
Phoenix61
24. The difference is the smoker isn't taking anyone else out with them. Neither is the person who doesn’t monitor their blood pressure or sugar. The anti-vaxers have chosen to be willfully ignorant and their ignorance isn’t just a threat to their life, it’s a threat to everyone they come in contact with. Whatever celebratory note people take when hearing of their demise is due to having outlived someone who seemed hell bent to kill themselves and as many others as possible. So yeah, when I hear that someone has died of terminal stupidity I may very well crack a joke about it.
So this primitive has never heard of second-hand smoke, nor have they taken into account the hardship that someone with high blood pressure or diabetes can place upon those of their family or those who have to deal with their illness and how that can affect their health. I can name numerous people who have sacrificed their own life to care for others who made poor life choices that caused their health to wane. But that doesn’t matter at all to this primitive. The LW agenda the Phoenix61 primitive supports is more important than seeing the whole picture.
Liberals are so simpleminded.
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