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FYI Hey Grimeka....Trust the Science?

Do you believe vaccines work? (Not just covid ones, but vaccines in general).
Yes i've had most of the tried and tested ones but i wouldn't have that Covid one it was still under trial when they where more or less making you take it. (place i worked at said no jab no job but i stuck to my guns. I'm not to coin the media term what all the sheople repeated an "Anti Vaxer"
 
This is you: one or more bad experiences 》distrust 》 ‘medicine doesn’t work’ 》 cherry-picking what fits that belief 》endless confirmation bias.

Break out of it.
This is exactly how one learns though. You clearly know very little about the real world and need to get your nose out of those books you barely understand.
 
This is exactly how one learns though. You clearly know very little about the real world and need to get your nose out of those books you barely understand.
Confirmation bias ≠ "learning". Try again.
 
There's no clinical trials nor evidence that indicates vaccines work without causing harm.
Harm = temporary side effects for most vaccines. Benefits far outweigh the "harm".
 
Harm = temporary side effects for most vaccines. Benefits far outweigh the "harm".
Harm= Deaths. There hasn't been a single vaccine on record that didn't cause a death.
Confirmation bias ≠ "learning". Try again.
If you have a bad experience it may lead to distrust. This is how we learn to avoid things like poisonous snakes or even bees and their stings. How is this not "learning"?

"Confirmation bias" is just a derogatory term used to describe people who are set in their beliefs and seek out evidence to confirm those beliefs. There's nothing wrong with that at all. It helps us to weed out misinformation, such as "vaccines are totally safe".
 
Harm= Deaths. There hasn't been a single vaccine on record that didn't cause a death.
Most of the "harm" isn't deaths. The greatest risk is that of anaphylaxis (severe reaction to the vaccine's foreign components). Anaphylaxis is extremely rare for most vaccines.

And the ethics of using vaccines is based on the "greater good" philosophy. A few deaths are nothing compared to the millions of lives it saves (think TB, polio).
If you have a bad experience it may lead to distrust. This is how we learn to avoid things like poisonous snakes or even bees and their stings. How is this not "learning"?
"Confirmation bias" is just a derogatory term used to describe people who are set in their beliefs and seek out evidence to confirm those beliefs. There's nothing wrong with that at all. It helps us to weed out misinformation, such as "vaccines are totally safe".
Confirmation bias is a real psychological phenomenon the OP is trapped in. The correct way is to build premises based on evidence/reasoning and then make a conclusion, and not the other way around (a priori conclusions are stupid, like religious doctrines).
 
Most of the "harm" isn't deaths. The greatest risk is that of anaphylaxis (severe reaction to the vaccine's foreign components). Anaphylaxis is extremely rare for most vaccines.

And the ethics of using vaccines is based on the "greater good" philosophy. A few deaths are nothing compared to the millions of lives it saves (think TB, polio).


Confirmation bias is a real psychological phenomenon the OP is trapped in. Tje correct way is to build premises based on evidence/reasoning and then make a conclusion, and not the other way around (a priori conclusions are stupid, like religious doctrines).
I disagree with all of this. Evidence and reasoning are not universal. What you might call evidence, another might call misinformation. There's not a thing wrong with a priori conclusions, most of the world's current governmental systems were established in this manner.

Also, the "greater good" philosophy is horrendous. That is NOT how the world should be.
 
I disagree with all of this. Evidence and reasoning are not universal. What you might call evidence, another might call misinformation. There's not a thing wrong with a priori conclusions, most of the world's current governmental systems were established in this manner.
Your statements are filled with fallacies, as usual.

When one proceeds logically, it's statistically highly improbable to draw conclusions like viruses don't exist or vaccines don't work (real world data and theory strongly disprove them). The only sensible conclusion would be that viruses exist/vaccines work.
 
And why the hell would you support the resident science denier?
 
Your statements are filled with fallacies, as usual.

When one proceeds logically, it's statistically impossible to draw conclusions like viruses don't exist or vaccines don't work (real world data and theory strongly disprove them). The only sensible conclusion would be that viruses exist/vaccines work. OP is mathematically wrong, and so are you.
Viruses do exist and vaccines can work but never flawlessly.
And why the hell would you support the resident science denier?
Just to irritate you and it's working as expected.

Suggest an alternative ethical framework then.
Ethics is a whole 'nother discussion. What you and I may find ethical, others may not. For example, I think slavery is perfectly fine. Some humans should be exclusively relegated to manual forced labor. Many people agree with this, but many do not, but nobody on this entire planet is qualified or has the right to dispute that belief. What they can do is unite in numbers that outnumber others and bend society's behavior to their will.
 
Viruses do exist and vaccines can work but never flawlessly.
That's wishful and naive thinking. They don't have to work flawlessly, only good enough to provide more benefit than harm, which they do.
Ethics is a whole 'nother discussion. What you and I may find ethical, others may not. For example, I think slavery is perfectly fine. Some humans should be exclusively relegated to manual forced labor. Many people agree with this, but many do not, but nobody on this entire planet is qualified or has the right to dispute that belief. What they can do is unite in numbers that outnumber others and bend society's behavior to their will.
Wrong. Your initial statement inevitably boils down to ethics: should we use vaccines if they're not perfect but save many lives? That's an ethical question.

Ethics isn't entirely subjective. It's tied to logic and science. So whether the government should vaccinate the population is an ethical question with a very clear answer. (Slavery is a different topic altogether)
 
And you didn't give an alternative framework to answer the question: "should vaccines be used on the general public?".
 
No, they should not. Let nature run its course.
And let hundreds of thousands die? Not to mention massive morbidity toll most diseases carry + enormous economic losses.

Define your framework first, don't jump to the conclusion.
 
And let hundreds of thousands die? Not to mention massive morbidity toll most diseases carry + enormous economic losses.

Define your framework first, don't jump to the conclusion.
So what? Yes, let hundreds of thousands die, this planet is overpopulated anyway. The economic losses? I doubt it, less mouths to feed. There's nothing to define. We need to stop meddling. Humans used to live hundreds of years and look at we've done. People are lucky to make it past seventy-five because of all the tinkering we've done.
 
So what? Yes, let hundreds of thousands die, this planet is overpopulated anyway. The economic losses? I doubt it, less mouths to feed.
Nihilism/pessimism isn't an ethical framework.
There's nothing to define.
Yes there is if you're a rational person. You answered the question whether one should use vaccines on the populus, but didn't give any ethical reasoning. No one will accept your view. It's utterly illogical.
We need to stop meddling. Humans used to live hundreds of years and look at we've done. People are lucky to make it past seventy-five because of all the tinkering we've done.
Red herring.

Define your ethical framework.
 
Nihilism isn't an ethical framework.

Yes there is if you're a rational person. You answered the question whether one should use vaccines on the populus, but didn't give any ethical reasoning. No one will accept your view. It's utterly illogical.

Red herring.

Define your ethical framework.
The ethical reason for not using vaccines on the populace (learn to spell, faggot) is that vaccines are not perfect. Measles still exists. Chicken Pox still exists. No vaccine in the history of vaccines has had a zero mortality rate or a one-hundred percent success rate. Tampering with nature has unintended consequences, such as the shortening of the global life span from several hundred years to less than a hundred years. Deformities and cognitive dysfunction have been reported as a consequence of vaccines. There's simply no need for it.

If a virus runs rampant and destroys half of the global population, logic dictates that the other half of the population either possessed or acquired an immunity and are no longer at risk. It is better that half of the population die accidentally than one single person die intentionally.
 
The ethical reason for not using vaccines on the populace (learn to spell, faggot)
The word "populus" comes from Latin and means "people". It's a textbook term but real, you three-time debate loser (this will be your third).
is that vaccines are not perfect. Measles still exists. Chicken Pox still exists. No vaccine in the history of vaccines has had a zero mortality rate or a one-hundred percent success rate.
As I said before, they don't have to be perfect. The benefit to harm (side effects/deaths) ratio of most vaccines is easily 100,000:1, even higher for many others.
Tampering with nature has unintended consequences, such as the shortening of the global life span from several hundred years to less than a hundred years.
"Several hundreds years"... nonsense.
Deformities and cognitive dysfunction have been reported as a consequence of vaccines. There's simply no need for it.
Extremely rare (plus not all vaccines have those effects, cognitive ones like autism from the measles vaccine is a myth). Doesn't justify vaccine withdrawal.
If a virus runs rampant and destroys half of the global population, logic dictates that the other half of the population either possessed or acquired an immunity and are no longer at risk.
It is better that half of the population die accidentally than one single person die intentionally.
False. Vaccines don't kill people "intentionally" (that's murder). Deaths are extremely rare and are unpredictable (you don't know who will definitely die, if any). That's not intentional. Fallacious ethics.

Now try again.
 
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