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Nina "Erina" Satragno 💫

@bencurthoys @tychotithonus @robertatcara "let's harm hundreds of thousands of kids and kill a good chunk of them to see if it teaches their ignorant parents a lesson!"

sheesh

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Royce Williams

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@bencurthoys

I concur with Nina here. I hadn't looked at the link until now. It completely sets aside the fact that some harmful behaviors have effects that extend beyond the primary actor, and the nature of epidemiology or second-hand / second-order effects. (Along the same line of "let them smoke" without regard to the direct impacts to spouses and children, etc etc. But ... worse.)

@robertatcara

pasta la vida

@tychotithonus @nsa @bencurthoys @robertatcara

if it were something without such a huge blast radius, maybe

the trouble is, it doesn't just harm their kids. (even if it did, that's uncomfortable)

there's some amount of "leakage" out of any particular neighborhood lead by stupid people.

leakage that can help the virus evolve by being harbored

a similar kind of thing happens with other infections like racism

giving them respite to regroup and rebuild vs eliminating any "daughters of the confederacy" remaining

@tychotithonus @nsa @bencurthoys @robertatcara

if it were something without such a huge blast radius, maybe

the trouble is, it doesn't just harm their kids. (even if it did, that's uncomfortable)

there's some amount of "leakage" out of any particular neighborhood lead by stupid people.

leakage that can help the virus evolve by being harbored

Misuse Case

@risottobias @tychotithonus @nsa @bencurthoys @robertatcara Yeah the problem is that these people are basically biological suicide terrorists it won’t just be them who get hurt

So we should shoot them

I mean we should give them shots

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