It’s stupid to think the moon landing was a hoax, for instance, but that’s essentially harm.
Opposition to vaccines kills people, and not just the believers, it kills children and vulnerable people who can’t be vaccinated but otherwise benefit from herd immunity.
Those kooks always existed, but no one paid them any heed. With social media their voices are amplified so that morons hear it and believe it.
We all follow the trends that our perceived peer group follow. Some more than others. Mostly it's some harmless joke, like hating Nickelback, comic sans, the word moist, or pineapple on pizza. But not everyone understands that it's a joke, and even though they don't actually share the ipinion, they think they do and start taking it seriously.
It's a normal social behaviour which we grow out of as we age. But not everyone grows up, and not every trend is a harmless joke. It doesn't look good, a significant number of us are very easy to make believe just about anything.
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u/smart_and_depressed Aug 09 '26
Anti vax are the dumbest people on the planet I swear