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Oh, he believed those things? Then it shouldn't be difficult for you to provide some citations for your claim.

I mean, really. What is wrong with you?! Must you yourselves suffer strokes from the vaccine in order to even begin to have empathy for iatrogenic dis...

Now sit down and think long and heard about what "luck" means in terms of science. Chance is the end of science. We do science in order to overcome ch...

Oh for fuck's sake. Do you have plastic flowing in your veins or what?!

Read again. I'm stating a truism.

And you still have nothing to offer to those damaged by the vaccines and their close ones. All you can offer is the standard rhethoric of risk, luck, ...

It simply seems to be part of American culture to view things in white and black terms, in terms of competitive oppositions, us vs. them mentality, th...

That you are unable or unwilling to provide any semblance of consolation for those damaged by the covid vaccines shows your cold, hard heart.

That mankind has allowed brute capitalism to be the norm of human relationships.

If something can be taken from you, it was never yours to begin with.

A gentleman is supposed to be different than ordinary people in some important way. Hence the word "gentleman". But here you are, proposing that one s...

You're more than old enough to cease playing socially approved games of keeping up appearances.

What would need to change is the perception of the value of education. There has been a general worldwide trend to view education as a means to an end...

I asked you whether you knew better than than the Buddha. Do you? If you had read what the Buddha said, you'd have some ideas.

It's not about the stakes, it's about what is at stake. I just don't understand gamblers. I'm not making that argument, and it's not clear why people ...

Note the question mark.

Quite merrily? Well, as long as health and wealth last, one can do many things. But is keeping two sets of books a viable plan for happiness, regardle...

You deny the Buddha? You know better than the Buddha? No, his proposal is not viable because it does not aim to uproot the cause of suffering. It only...

The whole project of the complete cessation of suffering as worked out by Early Buddhism is actionable only for people who can live in sufficient renu...

Really? The final solution to the problem of suffering is widely known and readily available, it's just that people "do not embrace it and act on it"?

They are about your right to despise others and to kill them for not complying with your ideas about how they should be.

As long as vaccination is not actually legally mandatory, suspending or firing someone for not being vaccinated is illegal. The actual wording of the ...

Which is a morally vacant view as it does not address the cause of suffering and does not uproot the cause of suffering.

It seems to me that to most people, good and bad are as plainly obvious as tables and chairs. People typically don't lose sleep over right and wrong, ...

How schizoid can one handle to be?

What is wrong? Did you see the actual notice of termination, the actual wording?

As if they are human beings who are not convinced by mere gambles.

What exactly do you mean by "death" and "dying"? Diseases, ways that people get killed, what will happen with your belongings when you're gone, ...?

What does that look like? Can you elaborate?

And you still have nothing to offer to those damaged by the vaccines and their close ones. All you can offer is the standard rhethoric of risk, luck, ...

Which is a view that can be held without negative consequences only by a Buddhist monk.

A person's socio-economic efforts would be thwarted if a person would consistently believe that one can never see outside of the mind-created world wi...

One can also think of cooking as a matter of physics and chemistry. Explicit knowledge of physics and chemistry are not needed in order to cook. The m...

Make that: wannabe intellectuals.

If one has to ask such things, one never had any civility to begin with, and always fought bare knuckled anyway. Might makes right, hm? Might makes ri...

Thus proving that might makes right.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber baron...

Really?? So then what -- do you get anxious? If you do, what do you tell yourself to calm down and compose yourself? This is a philosophy forum. More ...

Then why are those who want people to get vaccinated feeding us that line??? Why are high government officials, epidemiologists, public advertisements...

You are gravely missing the point. It's conveninent to harp on people's risk aversion because that's a simple truism. But the actual issue isn't risk ...

I'm sorry, but I have to laugh. Sure, there are democratic states which hold the protecting the rights of _some_ individuals to be the primary concern...

In the case of mandatory vaccines, yes. In Slovenia, a 20-year old woman died this week after complications from a vaccine. The minister of health has...

Because might makes right.

Not at all. It is doubtful that even professional statisticians think of their life choices in terms of odds. Do you ever reflect on risk before cross...

This isn't merely about how people interact online. Listening to you and other vocal pro-vaccers here at the forum is like listening to some of the hi...

Indeed, the people who ended up with strokes or dead from the vaccine experienced hardly much of an inconvenience. Perhaps you don't see it, but you y...

Part of the problem is insisting on looking at the matter from the perspective of large numbers, large populations, and then expecting that individual...

That the enthusiasm of the vocal pro-vaccers is unfounded. That the hatred and contempt that the vocal pro-vaccers show for everyone who doesn't share...

The response of right wingers surely depends on whether they live in a country where they have the majority or not. I live in a country with a right w...

People are being suspended or fired from their jobs for not being vaccinated. As long as vaccination is not actually legally mandatory, suspending or ...