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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•As parents seek out ‘vaccine friendly’ clinics, pediatricians worry about eroding trust
    1 month

    If there are no societal roadblocks to prevent anti-vaxx parents raising their children to also be anti-vaxxers, then the cycle of misinformation will only get worse as time progresses.

    right, but people don’t get socialized or educated by their doctors, doctors are like gatekeepers for medicine and surgeries that you get to see in very short windows of time once a year … withholding access to medicine and surgery is not going to help the situation

    Regardless, parents should not have the ability to prevent their children from getting vaccinations on the basis of their own unscientific beliefs.

    right, but the flip side is that you’re OK with foregoing the individual’s right to opt in or out of a medical procedure … I haven’t read enough bioethics to arrive at some kind of position on this, but I don’t think either side is obviously right - on the one hand individual liberties being protected results in more overall harm and deaths from fewer vaccinations; on the other hand ignoring individual liberties is authoritarian and can create medical trauma, as well as may backfire and result in greater resistance.

    Either way, we need to solve this on a societal level through education, developing greater trust in biomedicine, and probably by penalizing the grifters who profit from promoting anti-vaxx anxieties.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•As parents seek out ‘vaccine friendly’ clinics, pediatricians worry about eroding trust
    1 month

    the anti-vaxxers or the doctors who are willing to treat them?

    to be honest, the current evidence we have about clinical best practices actually supports doctors not trying to convince anti-vaxxers, so in some sense I can see a way of defending “(anti-)vaccine-friendly” clinical practice, as a way to ensure they have some biomedical healthcare - not just out of concern for the health and well-being of the anti-vaxxers (who deserve to live and be healthy despite their self-destructive and ignorant practices), but also for the health and well-being of the society who is threatened and burdened when other people get sick

    there are social and economic costs to illness, and it is a situation in which we have to be invested in one another’s health

    (this ironically makes being anti-vaxx all the more anti-social and unethical, but the solution to anti-vaxx and anti-science movements should be invested in the well-being of everyone)

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    yeah, I do tend to think overall probably a majority of Israeli citizens have problematic views (racism, defending their colonialism, supportive of Israel’s war crimes and genocide, etc.) - I just also tend to think civilians are not morally defensible targets and I’m not too keen on defending targeting civilians (even when they’re Nazis, as I mentioned earlier).

    Osama bin Laden used this kind of logic - that the US is a democracy, and thus civilians are valid targets because unlike in countries where people don’t have a choice, the idea is that the government does what the people choose for it to do. And you could make similar claims about US citizens being racist, defending genocide, etc. (after all, we fund, encourage, and enable Israel) … yet this reasoning still seems wrong to me, esp. when it’s a small minority of the US population that ultimately chose the representatives who run the government (and when satisfaction by voters with their representatives is so low, even hitting historic lows).

    So, I don’t know - this reasoning just doesn’t feel entirely right to me, and it’s concerning when it’s being used to justify indiscriminate bombing of children, women, the elderly, etc.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    in what sense am I “talking up” the Iron Dome? the closest thing to this is that I don’t agree with the tankie dogma that the Iron Dome only protects military assets … the Iron Dome clearly protects Israeli citizens as well, and that fact doesn’t necessarily change much - in fact, I also criticized the Iron Dome’s role in protecting citizens as a kind of “enabler”, the safety it provides undermines political will to end and avoid conflicts (not that I want civilians to be treated as valid targets, but the Iron Dome does have problematic consequences this way).

    If you don’t want to be thoughtful or read my comments in good faith, and you’re primed to conclude I’m defending Israel regardless, I don’t really care - you don’t have to read my comments, I’m not here to convince anyone of anything and I don’t need to convince you of my anti-Zionism; I’m happy to block you and move on with my life.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    I don’t know what to tell you, being furious with the government and calling for a ceasefire and opening humanitarian corridors doesn’t strike me as a citizenry that deserves to be bombed to death. I’m not even sure I feel fully comfortable with the Dresden Fire Bombs, not because I’m sympathetic to Nazism, but because I think civilian targets are not morally defensible targets.

    Civilians don’t have to be prefect for me to think they shouldn’t be military targets.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    I agree the current state of Israel is illegal and shouldn’t exist, but political positions like this are separate from my view that most civilians are just normal folks and shouldn’t bear the primary burden - generally wars should be fought targeting military targets, not targeting civilians. I understand that’s a bit complicated when the conflict is asymmetric and one side is not a military as much as a guerilla resistance, their tactics do rely more on using terror to pressure political solutions in their favor.

    But yeah, I agree with not funding Israel ✅ The US doesn’t have a special obligation to fund Israel, even if they have been a useful “attack dog” in the Middle East for us, I don’t think US intervention in pretty much most cases is helpful - the US is a big part of why Israel gets away with their crimes and is an unchecked genocidal, racist state.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.

    I’m an anti-Zionist, I’m going to continue defending not funding Israel, mostly because they are an illegal occupation with decades of history violating international laws and because they are genocidal and actively promoting racist and illegal settler-colonialism.

    So no, I’m not going to stop defending my anti-Zionism, thank you.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense
    2 months

    yes, I agree with this point - maybe not to the point of saying we should dismantle the Iron Dome from protecting civilians, but you are right that the Iron Dome acts as a kind of enabler - providing psychological safety to Israelis that undermines political will to end and avoid conflict.

    But I’m not sure the civilians are necessarily the best targets in the first place - there have been massive protests against the current government, and I’m not sure we should really consider Israel a particularly democratic state.

    Also, Israel has been genocidal for many decades now, including through decades under which many Israelis had to take cover under bomb shelters, so the Iron Dome is probably not the most relevant factor in whether Israel continues on its path.