Crazy Days of "Mumble-Mumbles"

 

What someone does will be seen quite differently by the one who is handled. I don't think that this dog, who is being used for research, has such a grip upon the situation as playing Pavlov like he is playing it, but the very idea is both funny and thought-provoking because it might be the case, and that would totally change the perspective of what's going on. Or put another way: If a sadist beats or even kills a masochist, doesn't that change what he/she is doing from cruelty into something close to the opposite? Also: If you make a choice because you believe that it's "the right/moral thing to do, but "you're being misled by your own misled ideas as to the implications of that choice for other people, are you then still responsible for the bad things it leads to?

 

These days, watching some kind of "modern witchcraft" - also called "thoughts and prayers" - gaining impact with the American public as they denounce science, is downright scary. How can people chose "Mumble-Mumbles" over science? To me that's very, very strange. However, I often I see postings or comments about a common wish to jail Fauci, although he represents science and knowledge whereas someone like e.g. the current leader of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is the United States' top health agency, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. doesn't. What's the logic of something like that? At his recommendations, people give up on e.g. vaccines because he has some unauthorized ideas about autism which puts them and their kids at danger. I suspect that such a choice not only signals a mistrust of science, but a strong wish to side with what many people see as the "ultimate authority", their God as represented in what to them are "chosen individuals".

 

The Middle Ages are fun to read about, but they were not all that fun to the people who lived at that time. To revive the thinking of that time is not what we should accept these days. Even loads of "thoughts and prayers" will not protect us from the situation that would lead to.