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by scrollaway 1314 days ago
Empathy isn’t the core principle of getting vaccinated. It’s just one of the reasons; and you cannot claim to be empathetic if you refuse to do it out of something that isn’t medical exemption.

The actual reasons are self preservation and slowing down a pandemic. And when people don’t care about the latter, that is an easy tell that yeah they have zero empathy.

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In order to guard against a future of mandated experimental treatments I refused to get vaccinated. I did this out of empathy for my children.
"Empathy for my children [and nobody else's]" is a good round-about way of saying "for entirely selfish reasons".

Especially since your actions do absolutely nothing to advance that goal you likely just made up now. If the governments have learned anything, it's that mandates need to be quicker and stronger, with much more stringent penalties for the dodgers.

So yeah... thanks for nothing.