You do understand that yours is an argument of infinite regress? Don’t you?
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She doesn't know what that means. But really, neither do I. She built a straw man, not very well.
My response would be "it sucks to be that person". People die every day from diseases contracted from others. Moreover, everyone dies; no one gets out of this life alive.
If I have the flu and I pass it to you via particles moving through the air due to a sneeze and then you die due to complications from your flu infection, should I feel guilty?
Or is it your fault you died because you didn't have the foresight to stay home during the flu season?
Or is it shit happens sometimes to people in spite of their best efforts?
This is what bothers me the most. I floored people at work last week when I told them that I was having a quiet holidays to avoid any interaction with others to protect our office from Covid. Again, they think because I actually think the virus is fake that I am willing to take unnecessary and undue risk. This hits a deeper problem in our society, where the thought process is that if you say the right thing you can do whatever you want without repercussions. The tail is wagging the dog. I went for broke in March and April to tell everyone that this thing was fake and no one listened. Ok... I can wear a mask, that's fine by me. I don't have kids getting f'd over by this psyop it doesn't bother me one iota.
I even went to a new town to start work and they glared at me FOR wearing a mask, because that's not what's done down there. But this is wrong, change the rules or follow the rules. There's no productivity creating a Jets vs Sharks gang mentality. If you make stupid rules, sure I'll follow them, I don't care whatever. My job is not to be a martyr, my job is to make money and there is no way I'm endangering my co-workers with a corona virus snaifu. Same to someone who thinks that Mark Rippetoe is endangering people he loves by opening his business. Do you have a COLLEGE DEGREE in biology? Do you remember everything written in you freshman biology text book? If your answer was "no" to either of those questions than Mark Rippetoe is far more qualified to save the lives of people he cares about than you are. At the end of your day, your good intentions, your hopes, and your dreams don't mean anything to cold hard facts that smart people are better than you, simple as
So your response to a situation that you caused someone else's death unnecessarily because you refused to to take part in minimal preventative measures and took unnecessary risks would be that it's ok because "people die every day". I highly doubt that if your mother, father, sibling, wife, child, close friend, etc. contracted a disease from you that could have been prevented by taking minimal preventative measures (e.g. wearing a mask) that you would have this point of view. I'm not saying your point of view is invalid or incorrect, but let's extend this towards other areas of life. Let's say you are driving in your car with your family/friend in the passenger seat and caused an accident, you survived but your family or friend died or was seriously hurt. Would you state, that sucks but people die in car accidents every day? What if someone else caused the accident while driving another car, would you have the same nonchalant attitude? Bringing things back to COVID, there was a wedding in Maine that ended up turning into a super spreader event and was linked to 7 deaths. I guess if that was an event you were holding your response would be "c'est la vie", at least they didn't have to wear a mask. At least Robin (whose post I was previously referencing) was on some level able to question and seemed self-aware of his own hypocrisy.
Anyway, back to addressing Mark. I hope you all decide to huddle together, maskless during the upcoming SS seminars inviting folk from all across the country to hop on an airplanes and traverse the country, all while neglecting basic preventative measures. Might I recommend that your next seminar be held on a cruise ship? Perhaps while at sea you can write up a well-informed piece for PJ media about how learning to squat will clear up the lungs from COVID.
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will 'cause
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid shit, Silly shit, stupid shit...
There's a lot of people who are already there. We are getting to the point where if enough of them live close enough to band together ugly things are going to start happening. Shit like what just happened in Nashville are likely to continue popping up here and there. Might even see people get shot on the 6th in DC.