(March 23, 2014 at 3:50 am)psychoslice Wrote: I'm gay and I would never want to hurt children, I'm not a child killer. that hurts.Oh, man, you should've said you were gay sooner, because then you would be the gay man of the forum and I would be the lesbian and we would be like the Jedi of the forums, bringing balance to the queer Force.
Okay, when they say you are a "child killer," they are not really talking about you as a person. They are saying that the anti-vaccination trend kills some children, and if you participate in it, you are contributing to that. What they want is for you to say, "Shit! That's awful! I didn't know that this medical conspiracy I believe in could cause that! I see now why this belief is problematic!"
Because you, see, it's not because the anti-vaccination conspiracy theories are so completely wrong that people are so passionate about this issue. It's because those conspiracy theories actually cause direct harm that we can clearly see.
