• Demdaru@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      There’s more. Lack of war desensitizes to it, lack of starvation makes it seem abstract etc.

      Good times create weak men, weak men create bad times.

      Alas it’s terrifying how it works irl. Doubly so because people who love that saying would call Trump a strong man xD

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      Yes. Sadly there is a lot of great truth to the idea behind that phrase, which instead usually just is treated as some cringe bullshit about being muscular and killing people

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      8 days ago

      I don’t think the existence of vaccines makes people anti-science, though. There’s a lot more going on there.

      • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 days ago

        yeah, the antivaxx sentiment was always there but it got worse due to the eugenics wave that sweeps the world whenever a global pandemic happens