Is it weird to sometimes wonder whether everything you know is wrong?
Is it weird to sometimes wonder whether everything you know is wrong?
I don't know, sometimes the though of "what if all my leftist ideas are false? What if trans people are just mentally ill? What if gay people are just deviants?"
I honestly really don't like it...
It's good to question your beliefs I guess, it's how you grow, but it sometimes makes me really uncomfortable. Why does this happen? Can I stop it? Should I?
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I sometimes wonder if my parents are actually my kidnappers and that one time I ran away from home is actually when I got kidnapped and this could be a suppressed memory.
Or they might be actors and I'm in a truman show.
Or this is a simulation.
Or other people aren't real, this is my imagination.
So yea, I have a lot of "conspiracy theories", but confidence in those theories is less than 40%, so it kinda just lingers in the back of my find, its just those unprovable theories that I like to think about. I don't like actually believe they are true, but its just something I keep in mind as a possible explanation of reality.
I sometimes to wonder about the anti-vax conspiracy. I'm like 50% skeptical of them. Not exactly antivax, but like I'm not gonna be the first one to get it, I'll wait a bit to see if anyone dies first.
Now, about what you are saying. Nah. I concluded that it's very a bad idea to judge someone for being something they were born with. My reasoning is, if I were born as a [Insert Race/Ethnic group here], I wouldn't want to face discriminayion. As with sexuality, I ask myself: "What harm does two men or two women being together have on me?" Can't think of any, so yea do whatever you want, life is short, go fuck whoever you want, as long as you are all consenting adults. Same with gender identity. I mean, I think separating bathrooms by genders is just ridiculous. I mean, why is someone watching me washing my hands a problem if they are the opposite gender, but not for someone of the same gender? Like... stalls are locked anyways, why is there even a gender separation. Just make every bathroom unisex, done. What even is the problem with this "culture war" BS.
So yea, I don't really don't really doubt my beliefs in egalitarianism.
Of course not everyone is born equal, some have disabilities, the point is to treat people as equals.
To me the anti-vax thing is the worst “flat earther “ theory.
- if you do the math, you see vaccinations are an overwhelming benefit, second only to public health efforts as the most benefit to health at the least cost and danger
- if you have a basic understanding of contagion, it’s clear that avoiding vaccinations is antisocial, anti society. Personally I think should be criminalized. Where else are we allowing personal choices where someone gets injured or killed and the perpetrator faces no consequences.
- we all know how ridiculous the autism claim is. Even if you fell for it at the time, it’s been shown ridiculous for half a century now. Why would you cling to this?
- conspiracy theory? Really? Consider how many people would need to be involved in that conspiracy. Ask yourself: for what purpose?
I suppose I’d buy not being first in line for a new one. There are manufacturing and logistical issues with any new product that might affect what you get
It depends what which country you live in.
On Lemmy, most of us live in Western Democracies, where you sort of can trust government agencies that checks their safety.
But in other countries, their public health department doesn't actually do a good job of checking if something is acually safe.
Some Black people were skeptical of thw Covid vaccines because they remembered this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study happening to them.
Just imagine a developing country where either they aren't democratic or has a very flawed democracy that's even worse than thr US, with corruption everywhere.
Like, say for example, the US replace the FDA with all trump lackeys and started approving medicine/vaccines that are dangerous.
I'd honestly look at what the doctors and experts in Blue States have to say about it, the US federal government is no longer trustworthy.
TLDR: If you live in actual democracy, sure, the vaccines are probably safe. But for those in authoritarian regimes or backsliding democracies, its kinda harder to trust the government.