kalm wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 8:18 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 6:53 pm
No, empathy isn't wrong, but it doesn't get to over rule a logic based argument. This was your downfall with COVID. You didn't argue science, you argued morality and it changed and shifted with the wind.
I argued both and provided more legit science on the topic than you. Not to mention, there was historical data from economic crises and previous pandemics to back it up.
Empathy vs. Logic is an interesting debate. You can’t have one without the other. Or do you think survival of the fittest should govern these decisions. A little old culling of the herd if you will.
No you didn't. In the first example, I asked how what you posted was suicidal empathy. You agreed they weren't.
In the COVID example, you NEVER provided facts because they didn't support your Utilitarian ethical framework of the greater good. Now if you had been able to articulate the absolute risk reduction and secondary attack rates proved the shot was going to save lives and end the pandemic, you'd have had a science based argument, but you didn't. It was all feelz and your self inflated morality driving your choices.
Facts remain that the absolute risk reduction sat at .84% and as we all saw, did not stop transmission. In addition the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNTV) was:
*120 people vaccinated to prevent mild illness
*600 to prevent a hospitalization with confidence intervals between 13% and 99% ( this means they had so few people in the RCT that were hospitalized they can't with any real confidence give a reliable number)
*22,000 vaccinated adults to prevent one death (confidence intervals crosses zero, so they could not prove it worked. In actuality, there were more dead people on the vaccinated arm than unvaccinated. No wonder they unblinded the trial).
*In children under 18, the reduction was so low, it couldn't be calculated for hospitalization and deaths.
This is data showing the shots sucked ass and 99.9+% of the population wasn't at risk. But you kept going.
Your moral stance hurt far greater than helped. You practiced reductionism. If it's good for one person, let's reduce the complexity and simply say it works for everyone. Everyone get a shot!
I'll have you know the logical conclusion to your "greatest good" framework dictates we kill one healthy person who visits a hospital and so we can harvest organs to save four others. That's the greatest good.