Posted on 01/10/2022 2:05:16 PM PST by KingofZion
Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma:
How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated?
On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.
On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus, including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital or the grave can be viewed as receiving their just deserts.
That’s even more true of those who not only refused the vaccine for themselves, but publicly advocated that others do so.
*** That brings us back to the tenor of the online reaction to the deaths of Ernby and her fellow anti-vaxxers. Some of those who object to the tone of the commentary are merely voicing a variation on the “civility” argument that was commonly raised against critics of the intemperate and inhumane policies of the Trump administration.
As I observed then, pleas for “civility” are a fraud. Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness. Typically, they’re the work of hypocrites.
*** It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents. And it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave behind.
But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled.
Nor is it wrong to deny them our sympathy and solicitude, or to make sure it’s known when their deaths are marked that they had stood fast against measures that might have protected themselves...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It seems strange that the LA Times wants to send dead anti-vaxxers to the desert.
Or maybe the idiot who wrote this, and their idiot editor at the LA Times, don’t know the difference between desert and dessert.
Soooo, by this logic, mocking vaxxers is also necessary…
An airborne virus with a 99% survivability rate is nothing to lose your mind and rational thought over.
Hiltzik admits to being a ghoul, then. Literally admitting he has no humanity and feeds on human death and misfortune.
They are now “GMO”. Unvaxxed? Plain old regular.
I guess we’re going have some chuckles when the vaxed start kicking off, right?
Every man’s death diminishes me for I am involved with mankind
Revenge will be cold as they get mad cow disease or whatever happens to them
Hey Michael! How does it feel to wake up every day in an evil state of mind? Would not want to be someone as narcissistic and hateful as you. Here is a good option for you: stay as far as you can away from me.
Sign me…UNVAXXED!!!
It’s not gaslighting. It is just liberals being liberals. Bigotry and hate is what they do
This will be a National sermon on the value of grace and humility.
Or....the wealthy and powerful vaxxed will use the power of the state to harvest the undamaged organs of the unvaxxed in an attempt to forestall hell.
LA Times: “It’s now OK to hate the following groups: . . .”
“...sober medical advice...”
Advice from whom? Dr. Fauci? If you don’t like his advice today, wait a few days, he will change it something entirely different. And you just might not like that advice very much either.
One apparent side effect of the vaxx is a self-righteous, arrogant, smugness.
Spoken like a true apparatchik...
Sieg Heil...
Cannot hold my breath long enough until the LAT comes out and starts making fun of those who died from butt sex.
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