{"id":1491,"date":"2015-07-01T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:05:12","slug":"the-dangerous-path-of-ridiculing-those-who-may-deserve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"The Dangerous Path of Ridiculing Those Who May Deserve It"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-anti-vaccine-movement-should-be-ridiculed-because-1683258152<\/a><\/p>\n

Ridicule is the absolute wrong way to do this. Ridicule is a personal attack, and discourages free discussion and openess. Do this enough, and people shutdown. It may sound good to shutdown an anti-vaxxer, but it shuts down much more than that and creates quiet enemies–and not just among anti-vaxxers. In the future, even on a subject you may have common ground on, you will never get that person to work with you on it because of the ridicule.<\/p>\n

In addition, Ridicule also makes the person doing the ridiculing seem like the one who has the closed mind and is insensitive.<\/p>\n

The real intent of the ridicule is to isolate the idea from spreading and taking hold in fertile, unexposed (i.e. uneducated) minds. The right way to deal with this is to create some kind of penalty for someone who had knowledge of, and access to a vaccine for themselves or their dependents but refused to take it, which caused themselves or their dependents to become infected. But it has to be done systematically, and showing compassion.<\/p>\n

Take this warning seriously. \u00a0I am seeing this ridiculing occur in many aspects, including simple political speech. \u00a0Have we as a nation forgotten, that one of our\u00a0founding fathers (Patrick Henry) is repeatedly quoted as saying, “I may not like what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” \u00a0It is only out of respect for someone, that a person changes. \u00a0Trying to generate fear with\u00a0tyrannical rants (and writings) sears that\u00a0person’s conscience whether they see it or not. \u00a0Ultimately, the ridiculing\u00a0becomes an ugly form of arrogance, obvious to everyone except the person ridiculing.<\/p>\n

Watch this video clip<\/a> of the Nazi court trial of the people accused of the plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. You don’t even need to know German to get the message. Imagine how our courts and government would look like operating like this. And don’t make the mistake of thinking it could not happen here. All of this starts with a lack of respect: especially for your enemy.<\/p>\n

A sidenote: the judge in the trial doing the ridiculing is Roland Frieser<\/a>. He was killed in a bombing raid, and not only did no one care that he died, he is even buried in an unmarked grave in a cemetary plot belonging to his wife’s family. So again, be very wary the path of ridiculing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-anti-vaccine-movement-should-be-ridiculed-because-1683258152 Ridicule is the absolute wrong way to do this. Ridicule is a personal attack, and discourages free discussion and openess. Do this enough, and people shutdown. It may sound good to shutdown an anti-vaxxer, but it shuts down much more than that and creates quiet enemies–and not just among anti-vaxxers. In the future, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-public-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}