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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4788971" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>I understand the reasoning behind it. But some people believe that acceptable risk across a population is the same thing as absolutely safe no matter what. Those people use their lack of understanding as a basis for shutting down any conversation about the acceptability of the risks of vaccines on an individual level. They label people who correctly understand the risks of vaccination as anti-vaxxer as a method of trying to shame them into compliance. But all that does is cause some people to become more reactionary about vaccines. The people who do that are either so stupid that they don't realize they are pushing people to become less trusting of vaccines, and therefore less likely to get vaccinated, or they know exactly the effect they are having, and continue doing it anyway, which makes them pretty contemptible as far as I'm concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>