[member=105]Thryleon[/member] Are we wasting time debating the ill, perhaps the better strategy is empathy and gentle steering rather than combative debate?
If we look at the wider trend, disputing authority, cherry-picking news media and social media opinion, the problems and solutions become self evident.
Where does the psychosis come from, how to understand it, how to help those suffering from it?
The weight of science won't win this debate no matter how probable the evidence becomes, because true science is never certain, and the denial exists outside of science yet like the cherry-picked facts it is wrapped in fragments of scientific language and context. Ironically it's the certainty with which the science evidence is denied that exposes the error.
I can't help but feel the Trump Flip is universal, if circumstance bite like they did for Trump, the attitude will temporarily flip like Trump, then after / if recovery occurs, it flips again this time to highlight the recovery in difference to those who didn't! Of course it is true this happens, nobody outside of those seriously disturbed want to die from a case of COVID, but of course some do die as by the time the denial is overcome by concern it's too late! That is the evil in the social media debate, it's increases the death rate, words kill!
From your own perspective, you see the irony in those who argue against action from an economic rationalist perspective, demanding hospital based remediation as the better economic choice! It's a bit like Trump and Musk moving people to Mars as a cheaper alternative to addressing climate change! :o
If we look at the wider trend, disputing authority, cherry-picking news media and social media opinion, the problems and solutions become self evident.
Where does the psychosis come from, how to understand it, how to help those suffering from it?
The weight of science won't win this debate no matter how probable the evidence becomes, because true science is never certain, and the denial exists outside of science yet like the cherry-picked facts it is wrapped in fragments of scientific language and context. Ironically it's the certainty with which the science evidence is denied that exposes the error.
I can't help but feel the Trump Flip is universal, if circumstance bite like they did for Trump, the attitude will temporarily flip like Trump, then after / if recovery occurs, it flips again this time to highlight the recovery in difference to those who didn't! Of course it is true this happens, nobody outside of those seriously disturbed want to die from a case of COVID, but of course some do die as by the time the denial is overcome by concern it's too late! That is the evil in the social media debate, it's increases the death rate, words kill!
From your own perspective, you see the irony in those who argue against action from an economic rationalist perspective, demanding hospital based remediation as the better economic choice! It's a bit like Trump and Musk moving people to Mars as a cheaper alternative to addressing climate change! :o
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