• AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is your take, from someone who defines themselves as militant? Lol.

    It’s absolutely a religion. One of the definitions of religion is “a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.” The examples you mention are much less narrowly defined. And if they started persecuting people who don’t join their specific method, then yes, they would be, too.

    I mean, here you are proselytizing with poorly thought out memes. What’s more religious than that?

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      5 months ago

      If pursuing something ascribed supreme importance is a religion, then being a doctor is a religion. Doctors ascribe supreme importance to the value of human life and to saving it.

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        5 months ago

        Then it is. Not all doctors do, but ones who do would certainly fall under that category.

        You see doctors educating, not badly trying to shame people to, for example, not participate in sports.

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          5 months ago

          You would agree, then, that making fun of anti-vax people is unjustified, hateful, and forcing the religion of medicine down people’s throats?

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            5 months ago

            Yes. Education works much better than mockery. Mocking people is for people who need to stroke their own egos. I’m confident in what I believe.

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                  No, you’re genuinely a doofus.

                  It’s an idiotic position. I don’t need to waste time trying to educate you. You’re convinced you’re correct.

                  All I can really do is call you a doofus.

                  (which you are)

                  My hope is that you will eventually learn that “FaCTs aND LoGiC” is not always sufficient to persuade someone who has their head up their ass.

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                    5 months ago

                    If being a doofus is having respect for people whose beliefs don’t match my own, then I’m happy to be one. I wish more people were doofuses. Maybe we could actually solve a few problems.

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                    5 months ago

                    I think you just never made the effort to learn how to present arguments.

                    You’re saying “not my job” but I’m hearing “not in my skill set”.