Meteor said:
The reason I think it's short-sighted is because the exact level of danger of the vaccine is unknown, and because anyone could make that kind of mistake in a similar situation, even you.
So why you accept if the damage is unknown? Anyone with human awareness and dignity should stop already at this step. It's about your life. We are not on a video game where you can reset or respawm. We have only ONE heart left, if you die, you die. If you get sick, today or tomorrow, you're fucked for the rest of life. Why accept this risk when your life is at stake?
Meteor said:
For example, let's consider if a teenage boy became homeless in order not to have the vaccine, and died from starvation a few months later. If taking the vaccine would also have resulted in death, then you could say that at least he went down fighting for his life. But what if it turns out that the specific vaccine he would've gotten would've had no serious negative side effects for him on the long term, and that he would've been just fine if he got it? Then he died simply because he misjudged the level of danger of the vaccine and had his priorities wrong; the exact same which could be said about those who hypothetically die because they did get vaccinated.
This scenario of yours is almost non-exist on reality, I speak it of here Italy, this thing does not exist. We're not there yet, fortunately. But let's pretend that this situation you described exists, that teenager boy become homeless and die for starvation after 2 months. Again, as told to SS10866688, in his stupid example of a person jumping to avoid the flames: There are always choices. Fight. Look for choices, opportunity, to get the food. Buy a fake certificate. Corrupt someone. Infinite possibilities. Believing you don't have a choice is just an illusion you've created on your own. You will have to fight but you still have the certainty of having that ONE heart left. The thing, with the experimental therapy aka the vaccine, doesn't happen. You're challenging that one remaining heart, with unknown outcomes. You are doomed already in the first place.
Meteor said:
The above symmetry is why I will not judge people for making a mistake in this context, whether that mistake was getting the vaccine or sacrificing a disproportionate amount of things in order not to get it. It's up to each person to make their own judgement depending on their situation and the information they have, and hope they picked the right option.
Between sacrificing so many things but having the certainty that your one heart left is still intact is worth more than sacrificing that life because that's the difference. That difference is, between remaining a human being and sold your essence as human being.
As for the ethics, I understand your point after you explained it better. You think people should've demanded more rights and proper procedure rather than rushing to get an experimental vaccine and thus applying pressure to others to do the same, right? I think that's a fair point, and I agree with you there. The situation should never have been allowed to get to this point, but thanks to many people's complacency it did. I understand your frustration and anger at them. In that regard, I think there's a difference between those who are pressured into getting it and those who go out of their way to. I question the sanity of the latter, although I guess in their case it's "covid" that they overestimated the danger of.
Ok, so we agree that those who want the experimental therapy are to be condemned, did I get it right?
And that your point of defend them is for those who are "pressured" or "forced" to take it.
So here I'll give you an ethical example: we have two groups of people.
1) The first group, is the one that took this experimental therapy because your mom wants it or you kicked out of house, or situation like it, of that when one is pressured.
2) The second group of people who didn't get the vaccine, because of they don't want to bend to blackmail and things like that. Could experience difficult things, and so on. Even death for starvation.
So, thank of us, we know that we will win. And that there will be no need to do justice because of this famous statement "they want to join but it will be too late for them". But let's pretend that we are not there, that we SS are non-exist, aside from the fact that the enemy wins easy if we are non-exist, how do you approach the second group, if one day will return the freedom we had before, thank to them or for other reasons. Do you think it's fair and ethical to say: "Wow, you guys hero! MY HERO! Thank you that you didn't bend over, that you had to endure bad things, that you didn't have the comforts and "security" of work/food and so on, take this presidential medal of freedom and 1000$ as form of compensation"? And what will be the congruous punishment for those in the first group who bent over, taking all the comforts and freedom the enemy "granted" for them?
For me, in short, the second group has challenged death and difficult things in life while the first was sitting comfortably on a couch and then, perhaps, compliments to the second one for saving their (((lives))).
So sorry, but even here, the first group just deserves to die as a form of respect for the second group, such as ours.
Just a matter of bringing forward only the strong, as happens in the nature law.
What I think is unethical, is to say that those who were pressured into getting it deserve to die. They could've quit their job or become homeless to avoid it; but to say they deserve to die for not being willing to go to such an extent when they have no way of accurately evaluating the risks involved and which option is less dangerous or harmful, is just cruel. Do you understand what I mean?
Yes i understand if you say it that way, unfortunately there are other aspects to consider, just read above. It's not cruel, but form of respect to who fight.
At the limit I can say that they deserve to die in a metaphorical sense, that they will have to stay in a confined area until natural death, the point is that they have to pay for being sell out the essence of human being.