I was talking to someone I’ve known since the 70s, my older brother’s college roommate. He lives in Florida and the subject of Florida no longer requiring your kids to vaccinate to go to school was raised.
He knows this one young man who was anti-vaccine and will not let his daughter be vaccinated with anything. I told him that if the daughter winds up with polio or some lifetime disabling disease that someone needs to give dad the Mussolini treatment. He instantly got offended and said he was a good man. He was just not smart in the ways of vaccines. I said that’s the problem with you MAGAs - you literally will forgive someone destroying his daughter‘s life or killing her because he refuses to educate himself on a topic where he knows there are two sides. He told me, “I don’t wanna talk politics, maybe we’ll talk later” and hung up on me.
He doesn’t know it yet, but that’s the last discussion I’m ever having with him on anything. He’s the biggest misogynist you could ever find, his dad was a flat racist wife beater, and his whole world is now involved around his re-found evangelical Christianity.
I guess he falls into the category of people you don’t necessarily respect that much, but have known for 50 years. Well, I know him, but I’m no longer going to interact with him. Not surprisingly, I’m one of the few people who will still talk to him - other than his friends at church who hate the crime inclined Mexicans - and who are deathly afraid of trans people. Like Jesus said to do.
edit: I know this is not the vaccine thread, but my post was in a response to the issue of people being not as bad due to stupidity instead of moral cowardice. I don’t care why you support things that will cause other people to be injured and or die unnecessarily. If you support those things then decent people should tell you -“You are not one of the decent people. Go live your life amongst the scum. You do not deserve the friendship of decent people.”
I have moved to the realization that not shaming people for their loathsome views is actually rewarding and enabling them - as going on with their life without consequences of any kind for their beliefs is actually the decent people enabling their views via a lack of condemnation.