• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
    159·
    20 days ago

    To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        34·
        20 days ago

        On one hand, food gave us Hitler. On the other, that dude actually killed Hitler. So…

        • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          20 days ago

          Would you say they’re pedophiles if they’re children themselves? At the end of the day you are raised not gifted intelligence.

            • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              20 days ago

              This is where we get into the worse debatable territory. Is a 17 year old an adult because if you say yes a lot of pedophiles will love you a lot more now. How about 16 if we can go down to 17 why not just go below, say a 14 year old should understand enough. Hell if you teach a 12 year old properly they should know enough to be treated this way as well they might just not know how terrible they are. See why it’s important to make the distinction between child and adult? So I’m going to ask again is a 17 year old an adult to you?

                • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  20 days ago

                  If you don’t then you ignore everything we have been for and throw yourselves to the nature state because you can undermine law whenever you feel like it. This doesn’t matter until you realize the law is the only thing holding us back from killing each other. Go search up jury selection and understand even they cannot have any level of bias to the case.

              • Banana@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                19 days ago

                Dude the devil doesn’t need an advocate and you’re making everyone here uncomfortable by being so damn obtuse, and to what end? Does this give you dopamine or something because there are far better ways to get that.

              • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
                1·
                16 days ago

                Pedophiles won’t be attracted to 14 year olds. Pedophiles are only sexually attracted to kids before they reach puberty. Most 12 year olds are safe from pedophiles for biological reasons.

                It’s not the pedophiles you have to guard your adolescents against – it’s sexual predators. And you cannot just assume someone is safe only because they turned 18 and lost all legal protection.

                So, are 17 year olds adults?

                Biological speaking, yes, and for a couple of years already.

                Culturally speaking, no, and they’ve got a couple of years to go before they become adults – there was a reason why comming of age used to be at 21, not 18.

                They are in between biological adulthood and cultural adulthood.

                There is a term for this stage of life: adolescence.

                17 year olds are neither children nor adults. They are adolescents, adults in training.

            • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
              1·
              17 days ago

              But if I, a 30 year old want to fuck a 17 year old, would I not also be called a pedophile? But if an 80 year old wanted to fuck me, he wouldn’t be?

              Define your terms of you end to be ableto communicate.

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    60·
    20 days ago

    If you want to be really pissed, read up on doctor disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

    He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.

    • Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
      42·
      20 days ago

      And here’s the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.

  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    20 days ago

    I feel like it’s probably worse than this. It should start with “I read about this thing called ‘choking to death’”.

    Or better yet, take out “choking to death” (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like “choking so hard your eyeballs pop out”.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
      17·
      20 days ago

      But they are not afraid of children dying, that’s totally fine. They’re afraid their kids might become “weird”. Because that is how they see autism, as being weird.
      And as everybody knows weird is literally worse than death.

      • sfbing@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 days ago

        “You know, darling, it’s so much more important to look good than to be weird.”

      • Bgugi@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 days ago

        One thing that I think causes a big divide in perceptions of autism is that most people perceive it almost exclusively from one side of the spectrum or the other.

        Around 1 in 30 kids will have a little more difficulty adapting to society… It’s good to recognize their needs and support their growth.

        No, wanting to prevent/treat/manage a profound and debilitating disease isn’t genocide.

    • Michal@programming.dev
      1·
      18 days ago

      When someone says that they usually want you to do their research, i.e. Find arguments supporting their claim because they’re too stupid or lazy to communicate them. They don’t actually want you to do the objective scientific research,they don’t even want you to do a “Facebook research” on groups that don’t align with their views.

    • PowerCore7@lemm.ee
      2·
      19 days ago

      To quote from Wiktionary:

      夫有以饐死者，欲禁天下之食，悖；有以乘舟死者，欲禁天下之船，悖；有以用兵喪其國者，欲偃天下之兵，悖。

      It is nonsense to forbid the world’s people to eat just because one person has choked to death when eating; it is nonsense to put the world’s boats in disuse just because someone has drowned while sailing; it is also nonsense to eliminate the world’s military forces just because one sovereign has lost his state due to his military action

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    11·
    19 days ago

    I was talking to a new friend who is a nurse yesterday, and she told me she worked in peds a bit last year during a measles outbreak in my city, during which one child died. She said she has never seen sicker children in her life, they were all unvaccinated, and that they all went home having lost so much ground. She says half the parents were just victims of disinformation but that many of them were super obnoxious.