I tried to use an analogy to illustrate the absurdity of shutdowns, lockdowns and isolation dictates in a discussion on 2020: "it's like preventing sudden infant death by drowning babies at birth" which as you might imagine didn't go over well.
I had to explain I wasn't advocating drowning babies at birth (really) and the point is that unless we evaluate the consequences of our actions fully, the outcome really isn't good. I stopped using analogies...and having risk/reward conversations with most people.
BTW did have one person respond "if you prevent the birth through birth control or early abortion, you don't have to worry about SIDS" and not being sarcastic. Another level of scary that this kind of thing is OK to say in public but questioning risk/reward of a drug isn't.
It's really dispiriting when people come out with those non-sequiters that show how completely differently they're recieving what you're saying, how divorced your realities are.
It's very difficult not to just quit the conversation when you realise they're still 7 storeys further back down the chain of reasoning, and the elevator is probably not working too well.
I tried to use an analogy to illustrate the absurdity of shutdowns, lockdowns and isolation dictates in a discussion on 2020: "it's like preventing sudden infant death by drowning babies at birth" which as you might imagine didn't go over well.
I had to explain I wasn't advocating drowning babies at birth (really) and the point is that unless we evaluate the consequences of our actions fully, the outcome really isn't good. I stopped using analogies...and having risk/reward conversations with most people.
BTW did have one person respond "if you prevent the birth through birth control or early abortion, you don't have to worry about SIDS" and not being sarcastic. Another level of scary that this kind of thing is OK to say in public but questioning risk/reward of a drug isn't.
It's really dispiriting when people come out with those non-sequiters that show how completely differently they're recieving what you're saying, how divorced your realities are.
It's very difficult not to just quit the conversation when you realise they're still 7 storeys further back down the chain of reasoning, and the elevator is probably not working too well.