Melanie's marvelous measles

[Esquilax]

Yes, I read the story. This sort of sentiment is like a disease itself, and indeed it seems to have been the aunt who turned her grief for her child into something sinister.

But how far back do you want to go? Who got to the aunt? Who got to him / her? Which of the well meaning but FUCKING WRONG people has to take responsibility for the rest?

The fact is, sad as it is, she's the one putting out information which might very well lead to other parents suffering what she did. She has to take responsibility for that, irrespective of her vulnerability. I have sympathy for her loss, but that does not mitigate her accountability in my view. I'm a heartless bastard that way .

I did say that I partially blamed her; she's definitely complicit in this, after all. But she also has some mitigating factors, in her grief and potential ignorance of medicine. Those aren't excuses in any respect, but they are factors that need to be taken into account. But her aunt, who has every reason to know better, spent her time bothering grieving families to feed her conspiracy theories; in the continuum of sick ignorance that fuels the anti-vax movement, she's worse.

It's kinda a Palpatine and Vader situation; Vader's still a villain, but it's indisputable that he was manipulated into that situation unknowingly. Doesn't mean he's not to blame for Obi Wan's death.