• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    We’re witnessing the end result of decades of baked-n American Exceptionalism and “rugged individualism”: a bunch of selfish pricks literally willing to kill themselves and others out of some bizarre form of oppositional defiant disorder.

    This is the American Dream, folks.

  • Nobody@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I kinda get risking a tummy ache for raw milk if that’s your thing. I don’t get risking being patient zero in a bird flu pandemic.

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      5 months ago

      I think people have already proven that they rather kill their families and neighbours than experience a mild inconvenience.

      The inconvenience in question here is not being able to do something unimaginably stupid.

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        It’s not even an inconvenience. Raw milk is harder to get, more expensive, and doesn’t keep as long. And it’s the sort of thing you have to actively look for to find it.

        The thing I can’t figure out is where these dumb opinions and attitudes are coming from and why is it getting worse? I can’t go on social media without coming across something insanely stupid within a few minutes (like, I just saw a pro-raw milk post this morning on Facebook). But it’s not just online - I’m seeing more and more “normal” people I know just adopt patently false ideas.

        Like, what’s happening to our society that people are just not using critical thinking anymore?

  • lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Have we considered attaching electrodes to Louis Pasteur’s corpse? He’s probably spinning so fast in his grave we could solve the world’s energy problems.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People deserve a right to do to and with their bodies what they want.

    People do not have the right to carelessly endanger other people. This goes for many things from second hand smoke to negligently spreading infectious diseases.