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    1. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      5. The likelihood of death or serious harm from failing to wash your hands, wipe your feet and brush your teeth is too ridiculous to bother mentioning. But that doesn’t make doing those things any less reasonable.

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    2. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      6. Yes, you can debate whether washing your hands, wiping your feet and brushing your teeth are reasonable, but that would mean putting yourself on the other side of a galaxy of things that make up the prevailing view on healthy behavior.

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    3. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      7. Most people most of the time are not going to put themselves on the outside looking in. When it comes to getting vaccinated, it would put you on the other side of what’s universally understood, which is the covid it can kill you & the ppl you love if you don’t get vaccinated.

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    4. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      8. The collective wisdom of human history often comes to us in the form of proverbs, and the most salient in the time of the covid is “better safe than sorry.”

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    5. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      9. Even if you think the covid is overblown, you must admit a) it can kill you and therefore, b) it’s reasonable to protect against it. Better safe than sorry. Hence, getting vaccinated is as reasonable as washing your hands, wiping your feet and brushing your teeth,

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    6. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      10. even if failing to wash your hands, wipe your feet & brush your teeth does not result in death or harm. If you think getting vaccinated is unreasonable, you must, by logical necessity, believe washing your hands, wiping your feet & brushing your teeth are unreasonable.

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    7. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      11. And if you’re willing to go down that road, my friend, you’re prepared to abandon human relationships for good. Indeed, you already have.

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    8. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      12. You don’t care about human relationships if you can’t dominate them. Somewhere along the way, you have confused cruelty for strength, obedience for morality and deprecation for love. That’s usually not where the anti-vaccine crowd wants to go.

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    9. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      13. They understand how it looks to say, out loud, that you’re against getting vaccinated because you’re against whatever most people want you to do, because you don’t care about human relationships if you can’t dominate them.

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    10. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      14. The anti-vaccine crowd understands it’s better to talk about freedom and tyranny. To find an unvarnished articulation of that crowd’s fetish for dominance, you have to go to the bottom of the right-wing barrel, where

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      *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

      15. people are more interested in saying terrible things than they are in saying acceptable things, to a desiccated ghoul by the name of Peter D’Abrosca.pic.twitter.com/YQUS37ucRy

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      • Marius Loots Moderna-ized Spottycat Great Fiction Novel D'Aug 🌭🌐🧦🦧 More Smiting! Miragee who is fully-vaccinated.🥳 Are you? Antifa Snack Manager ^..^ Fly on the wall Liz "The Mask Goes Over Your Nose AND Mouth" Ditz
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        2. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          16. It’s often said the Republicans have no recognizable ideology. They no longer stand for state’s rights, fiscal conservatism, limited government and the rest. That ignores the obvious, though.

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        3. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          17. They stand for whatever the Democrats stand against; they stand against whatever the Democrats stand for. We have reached a point in political history in which the parties are yin and yang, such that

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        4. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          18. the Democrats go out of their way to be reasonable while the Republicans go out of their way to be unreasonable. The Democrats take pleasure in helping people in this time of the covid. The Republicans, meanwhile, take pleasure in hurting people.

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        5. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          19. In short, the GOP’s ideology is sadism.

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        6. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          20. Most people most of the time seek out, and accept, what’s reasonable—and move on. So most people are going to look at a ghoul like Peter D’Abrosca and think he’s full of shit.

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        7. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          21. He got vaccinated like everyone else did. He’s just trying to get a rise out of people by saying things most people would never say, because most people get more pleasure out of human relationships than their sadistic ability to dominate them.

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        8. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          22. While sadism can yield short-term electoral results, as might be the case for the midterms, it can’t over time. Most people are going to be drawn to messages like Joe Biden’s. During his address to the Congress this week, he asked all Americans over 16 to get vaccinated.

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        9. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          23. Not just for yourself, he said, but for everyone—for “we the people.” “In America, we do our part. We all do our part. That’s all I’m asking. That we do our part.

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        10. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          24. JRB: If we do that, we’ll meet the central challenge of the age by proving that democracy is durable and strong. Autocrats will not win the future. We will.” Full article:https://stoehr.substack.com/p/fighting-vaccines-is-fighting-reasonableness …

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        11. *The* Editorial Board‏ @johnastoehr Apr 30

          25. Now's a great time to subscribe, because tomorrow, I'm sending out the Editorial Board's weekend edition, featuring insights and analysis by @beyerstein, @RaySuarezNews, @pastordan, and @CJSprigman! Join us!https://stoehr.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=web&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=35616649 …

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