[Serious] Good People

[Rev. Rye]

I think it's called an essentialist fallacy. It's too easy to see someone doing something bad, or (in the case of those who refuse to wear masks or take the vaccine) just plain stupid, ask why they're doing it, and assuming the answer is "because they're a bad person." Somehow, the possibility that someone is ignorant or (perhaps more commonly these days) blinded by ideology (and unable to understand that just keeping your head in the sand during a crisis doesn't magically stop said crisis from happening) seems to not occur to many people.

And somehow-er, the possibility that many people are simply too morally indistinguished to be considered good or bad in any meaningful sense appears to be beyond most human minds, at least in my experience.