Before anyone says it, I know that the best option for me is to just delete my Reddit account and never use it again, but I don’t have any type of impulse control to stop me from mindlessly scrolling through social media so that option is out of the question for now
Anyways, I saw a Reddit thread about an NFL player who accidentally killed someone while he was drunk driving having PTSD from the incident and a good amount of the comments were acting revolted at the thought that a person who fucked up was a human being with emotions. Maybe I’m being too sympathetic to the NFL player but I think like it’s a bit extreme to say that the feelings of a dude who seems to be pretty guilty and remorseful over unintentionally committing the worst mistake of his life are invalid because of what he did. It’s also kind of representative of this thing that redditors do where they go out of their way to post these deranged fantasies about what they think should happen to every criminal and to talk about how people in prison don’t deserve to be treated with any kind of dignity or compassion because they committed a crime once. I don’t know if these people are just saying this because they want to feel morally superior to everyone else and look down on prisoners because they’re easy targets or if they’re genuinely just deranged and like it when people are dehumanized
But yeah thanks for making it this far into my semi-coherent essay, you can tell me why I’m an idiot in the comments if you feel like it
That doesn’t really apply to people who are opposed to vaccination as a concept. I do feel like capitalism and the alienating material conditions it leaves people in are what foster antivax sentiment though. People who see that their lives keep getting worse but don’t have the framework to explain why will exclusively blame the government because of free market brainworms and distrust anything the government does, even objectively helpful stuff like vaccination campaigns