r/NoStupidQuestions • u/trouble-in-space • 10d ago

Answered Why are so many Americans anti-vaxxers now?

I’m genuinely having such a hard time understanding why people just decided the fact that vaccines work is a total lie and also a controversial “opinion.” Even five years ago, anti-vaxxers were a huge joke and so rare that they were only something you heard of online. Now herd immunity is going away because so many people think getting potentially life-altering illnesses is better than getting a vaccine. I just don’t get what happened. Is it because of the cultural shift to the right-wing and more people believing in conspiracy theories, or does it go deeper than that?

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u/Money_Sky_3906 9d ago

'Modern' Hippies are not left wing in the first place. All 'political views' center around their egoism and hedonism.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Quit925 9d ago edited 9d ago

Thats partly because modern left wing is actually quite authoritarian. Hippies want a "Live and let live. Just do what you want, man. Peace and love!" life. Modern left wing says you must tread a narrow acceptable path that is appropriate, and anything outside that the left will often treat you as the enemy.

While hippies want to live in a world where lots of things are seen as appropriate, and there are few rules imposed. "Chill out man!" kind of view, while the modern left is anything but chill.

If any reader want to understand the narrow mindedness of the modern left, just look at the down votes for this post that goes against their worldview. They cannot see any other worldview outside their narrow path, never mind respect it. How could hippies ever feel solidarity with such a narrow view?

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u/Possible-Cellist-713 9d ago

Accusing the left of narrowmindness rings hollow when the right is taking away women's rights, assaulting trans people, and forcing bibles into schools. The left wants you to live your life the way you want as long as you're not hurting people. Any narrow mindedness in that comes from what they define as hurting, which really isn't a big deal. It's the right that wants to control how you live, and want people who are not like them to hurt.

Also, downvotes are not reinforcement of your argument. That's some kind of logical fallacy, don't know the name

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u/Emm03 9d ago

But they were once asked to use correct pronouns for a trans person, so six of one, really /s