• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I mean, this level of Darwinism would be fine. What grates me is not recognizing the effect it has on others.

    Still seeking an analogy where not eating food somehow puts a neighbor or classmate at risk of starvation.

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      Because food is dangerous, we’ve taken steps to ban supermarkets which distribute food.

      Only a select few strictly regulated supermarkets will be allowed to distribute food.

      We know some communities may struggle with reduced or no access to food because of this decision. However we deem this imperative in order to have a strong and healthy country.

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      I stopped at a stop sign and somone almost rear-ended me. Had I driven through, I would have been safe. There is no reason to stop at stop signs. Other people can stop if they choose to, but the government can’t force me to risk a rear-ending in order to protect someone else. Jesus wouldn’t let me get T-boned in an intersection, I’m covered in his blood.

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    True, I usually refer to something similar: Do you know how many people die in bed every year? Perhaps we should ban beds.

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    You know what every living autistic kid have in common? They all eat!

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    To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.

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        On one hand, food gave us Hitler. On the other, that dude actually killed Hitler. So…

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          Would you say they’re pedophiles if they’re children themselves? At the end of the day you are raised not gifted intelligence.

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              This is where we get into the worse debatable territory. Is a 17 year old an adult because if you say yes a lot of pedophiles will love you a lot more now. How about 16 if we can go down to 17 why not just go below, say a 14 year old should understand enough. Hell if you teach a 12 year old properly they should know enough to be treated this way as well they might just not know how terrible they are. See why it’s important to make the distinction between child and adult? So I’m going to ask again is a 17 year old an adult to you?

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                Dude the devil doesn’t need an advocate and you’re making everyone here uncomfortable by being so damn obtuse, and to what end? Does this give you dopamine or something because there are far better ways to get that.

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                  If you don’t then you ignore everything we have been for and throw yourselves to the nature state because you can undermine law whenever you feel like it. This doesn’t matter until you realize the law is the only thing holding us back from killing each other. Go search up jury selection and understand even they cannot have any level of bias to the case.

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    “Do your research” is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is “Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you.”

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    Even then, starving your own children isn’t going to cause their classmates and teachers and those people’s families to also go hungry. OP’s comparison is extremely forgiving to those dipshits.

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      They don’t stop eating. They will stop their kids from eating because they have been already vaccinated, so they can’t live without eating, but their children can

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    If you want to be really pissed, read up on doctor disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

    He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.

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      And here’s the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.

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    I feel like it’s probably worse than this. It should start with “I read about this thing called ‘choking to death’”.

    Or better yet, take out “choking to death” (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like “choking so hard your eyeballs pop out”.

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      But they are not afraid of children dying, that’s totally fine. They’re afraid their kids might become “weird”. Because that is how they see autism, as being weird.
      And as everybody knows weird is literally worse than death.

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        One thing that I think causes a big divide in perceptions of autism is that most people perceive it almost exclusively from one side of the spectrum or the other.

        Around 1 in 30 kids will have a little more difficulty adapting to society… It’s good to recognize their needs and support their growth.

        No, wanting to prevent/treat/manage a profound and debilitating disease isn’t genocide.

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        I actually bothers me that parents hate there kids that much.

        Can you just be happy with who they are?