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[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 hours ago

That's the neat thing, scientists from all around the globe are saying the same thing. No need to trust your gvmt.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 7 hours ago

Idk about this one but y'know "just trust me bro" honestly shouldn't be our SOP on a daily basis.

[-] derg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

But it is! Do you trust the food you eat? Who knows what could happen… If you take any medications at all, you must trust in some part the whole supply chain. If you drive a car, especially a new model, you trust the designers, engineers, and QA to make something that won’t kill you. Do you fly? Do you enter your banking or financial info into any computer?

I’m not saying we should blindly trust anyone, especially not a single person, but we have to trust the experts at least some, in every field. And when those experts all basically agree… What else is there to do? Or society is built on trust.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

But it is

For some.

Do you trust the food you eat?

No, it's all full of microplastics and chemicals and Monsanto scientific horrors. I still have to eat, but I know it's killing me slowly. You shouldn't trust that any more than your scammy mechanic.

If you take any medications at all, you must trust in some part the whole supply chain.

Yeah medications never have unintended side effects that come out years later, and nobody has ever put potassium cyanide in Aspirin bottles, great example.

If you drive a car, especially a new model, you trust the designers, engineers, and QA to make something that won’t kill you

Yeah like a Tesla, huh? New as hell, burning people alive in crashes. Recalls happen all the time, and often don't when they should, you're sure there won't be one for yours?

Do you fly?

Hell no.

Do you enter your banking or financial info into any computer?

Very limited, never stored, one device I don't do anything sketchy on. Usually I just go to the bank, like, the building.

Even people who aren't lying to you may be wrong, it can happen at any level of knowledge or expertise.

And just to remind you, I'm not talking about "vaccines," I'm talking about "just trust me bro" w.r.t most things.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Whut? You got it all backwards I guess

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

So... I am supposed to know not to trust the covid vaccine and also blind trust is good?

Is that what you mean by backwards?

Cause I said "I don't necessarily think [skepticism] is the best course of action regarding this current topic which is the covid vaccine, but blindly trusting people regardless of expertise isn't always the best thing to do."

"Backwards" of that would be... y'know... trust everyone except this vaccine... so... ?

Care to elaborate?

Edit: OH did you mean like this?

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