• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    “The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” he said. “We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much.”

    The man’s daughter died. I can’t think of anything worse than that. But still “we don’t trust the vaccine”. How can you possibly break through when even a child dying isn’t enough to convince them? This sucks so much.

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      1 month ago

      A child dying is going to make them double down, honestly. At this point they will REALLY refuse to acknowledge that the kids death was 100% their fault since taking accountability is not something these people are willing to do

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      1 month ago

      You need people whom they trust to start telling them the truth. It doesn’t work if they don’t trust the messenger

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        1 month ago

        At this point, I don’t know if even someone trusted would be able to change his mind. Admitting to being wrong about vaccines means admitting he basically killed their daughter. Horribly sad.

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      At this point, it’s a rationalization, not a belief.

      If he changed his mind and thought “maybe I should have gotten her the vaccine” then it means that he directly caused his daughter’s death. If he changes his mind later that maybe vaccines aren’t so bad, that means his stupid, selfish choice caused his daughter’s death.

      I don’t know of many people that could handle that realization. So his mind just rejects it out of principle.