Even if Sam’s insane and irrelevant hypotheticals had any relevance to the real world, he better be prepared to stack up and risk his own life if he thinks he can force me to inject or consume anything against my will.
What part of that is he too retarded to understand?
His mental model of the issue is just plain wrong. I think he might be dumb? The bit he seems to fail so hard on…
if his kids are vaccinated in this hypothetical scenario with the hypothetical super safe, super effective vaccine… then QED… he believes they are perfectly safe, no?
If the vaccine works as he described, then his kids can safely inhale the airborne virus and be fine. The prevalence of the virus is irrelevant… the prevalence of sick infectious people is irrelevant… unless of course, the vaccine doesn’t actually work.
His position is paradoxical. It’s just wrong.
There is no scenario where you mandate vaccines, because a good vaccine protects the recipient.
With a good vaccine, the people who choose to get that protection are removed from the problem, they are literally immune to the problem and thus have no basis to mandate others to do anything.
A bad vaccine, one that doesn’t protect the recipient… why would you mandate that? What does that achieve?
Sam Harris is trapped in a paradox and doesn’t seem to recognise his broken train of thought. Also, he looks ill, is he OK?
