My Body... My Choice..

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[–]HeyImSancho 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I link to several sites, none of which I personally endorse(I honestly try not to 'own' any opinion other than what I personally come up with), and often times articles i post, or threads I participate in, I don't personally 'own' any certain position, other than all objective angles, and 'what works'; meaning 5, 10, 20, 50+ years from now.

As far as vaccines, I know both sides of the debate, I get where you're coming from, and I also get where the anti-vaxxers are coming from. I'm actually neither; I don't have an opinion other than I usually will take the position of what I see as the anti-establishment, or underdog choice/stance/argument.

An angle in regards to general public health, that hasn't been covered are parasites, and hygiene. We're forced to touch more, and more in this 21st century. If the McDonald's kiosk touch screens have fecal matter, then what of the credit card machines everywhere? Fecal matter has live parasites.

If you read into the topic of parasites; they're everywhere, and cause a large health impact. Yet not much of an outcry from anyone over this, and it's a serious health issue for everyone.

Another angle to any debate in our modern world is the idea of 'break away' societies. I think we're there now in so many ways. While we debate here, what impact does a single opinion have, or multiples? A single cohesive group could be formed, but life proves this never happens. I can totally see a future world split in many ways, or demarcation lines perhaps on par with how Israel has set up for varying cohesive groups, and perhaps the 'outsiders' who just let everything go.

We're getting there.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I honestly try not to 'own' any opinion other than what I personally come up with

Same. I merely linked the site because I found it when searching, and summed up the evidence better than I; I didn't get my opinion from that site in the first place, and in fact have never visited it before.

I usually will take the position of what I see as the anti-establishment, or underdog choice/stance/argument.

The contrarian is an important role to play in any debate, but make sure you don't get too attached to your contrarian position. That being said, don't become contra-contrarian either. (warning: site has anti-death bias)

Yet not much of an outcry from anyone over this, and it's a serious health issue for everyone.

I hear loads about hand-washing and the importance of hygiene. It's something that is somewhat instilled in my local culture, actually; people infrequently shame (comment on) each other for not washing hands after going to the toilet, etc..

I'm not sure what you mean by the breakaway societies thing. It seems like you've attempted to articulate a large, large coherent thought, but there's far more information that you're trying to convey than can have been represented by that paragraph.

[–]HeyImSancho 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Break away societies.... Today, we can choose to live as primitive cave people using a large database of 'primitive technologies', or blast off into space using 'high technologies'. Both have volumes of information to learn, in regards to the knowledge necessary to survive, and thrive in said societies.

Likewise with the Internet, and given some natural acumen, any skill, or subject can be conquered in a relative short time frame; as opposed to yesteryear where that information, and knowledge may of necessitated years of study.

I donno long term how everything will fall, but we've seen the Internet alone, change the world, and it's still changing.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's true, and bears thinking about.