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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If pursuing something ascribed supreme importance is a religion, then being a doctor is a religion. Doctors ascribe supreme importance to the value of human life and to saving it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then it is. Not all doctors do, but ones who do would certainly fall under that category.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You would agree, then, that making fun of anti-vax people is unjustified, hateful, and forcing the religion of medicine down people's throats?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Education works much better than mockery. Mocking people is for people who need to stroke their own egos. I'm confident in what I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're going to troll, at least try to put some cleverness into it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, you're genuinely a doofus.

It's an idiotic position. I don't need to waste time trying to educate you. You're convinced you're correct.

All I can really do is call you a doofus.

(which you are)

My hope is that you will eventually learn that "FaCTs aND LoGiC" is not always sufficient to persuade someone who has their head up their ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If being a doofus is having respect for people whose beliefs don't match my own, then I'm happy to be one. I wish more people were doofuses. Maybe we could actually solve a few problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Except you don't have respect. You came in here throwing around accusations of religious dogma.

Like, damn dude, I just eat more vegetables than you.

You're intolerant of us because we have a different moral framework than you. You piss and moan at the mere mention of anything vegetarian.

Meanwhile I interact with meat eaters, every single fucking day, and I manage not to be a complete ass. You can't seem to manage it even once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't even know my diet. Lol. You're assuming what I eat just because I don't agree with your methods.

I never used the word dogma. I just agreed with another commenter that veganism is a religion. I don't happen to see a problem with religion, so don't see that as an insult. I'm just labeling it what it is. Veganism is a religion. Eating vegan isn't necessarily.

But you are right in an oblique kind of way. I have respect for other people's beliefs. Not necessarily their behavior. And yours and OP's is ineffective at actually trying to convince anyone of anything. If I were you, and really believed what I claimed to believe, I'd want to know that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think you just never made the effort to learn how to present arguments.

You’re saying “not my job” but I’m hearing “not in my skill set”.