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Originally Posted by Bearcat
There's definitely some hypocrisy on the surface, but just like an Alex Smith debate, a lot of it is a product of people's first-grade level of comprehension and debate, so everyone gets pigeonholed into the two extremes with no gray area.
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There are a great many people here that desire the extremes, no pigeonholing necessary.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat
And no offense, but the hyperbole of "lamenting every, single, last, death" is part of that (I get it... we all talk about the same stuff forever and the hyperbole comes out).
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Um, yeah, that was the whole point. I was pointing out hyperbole by using hyperbole. Seriously, when the canned response to any dissenting opinion is "but XXX deaths" then yeah, that's hyperbole.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat
And I'll admit, reading this thread, I noticed the pattern of some of the people who have dismissed Covid as a real threat for the past year and have called others afraid and scared of a virus, are now what I could easily call "afraid" of a vaccine. One of those things killed 600k Americans and caused serious long term issues to many others (and we had relatively little control over it), while the other will most likely kill or cause issues for a small fraction of 600k (and has been tested and so forth).
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Deaths are deaths. You either care about people dying or you don't. I find it odd that you're only willing to acknowledge hypocrisy from one side when it's blatantly obvious that both sides are full of people that are full of shit. Not everybody, mind you, but a metric ton on both sides.