No shit. His choices are to either double down or admit to himself that he killed his daughter.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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He is mentally ill. His child should have been taken away from him long before this happened.
Unfortunately, thanks to millions of people as mentally ill as he is, who inject the conservative propaganda machine directly into their brain stem, she may not have been much better off in foster care...
The kids don’t deserve to die, but the parents deserve to lose them.
"We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much."
I want to know what he heard and saw about vaccines, and where he heard and saw it.
I think a lot of the issues in these extremely conservative communities is due to them being unable to rectify the contradictions between religious beliefs and the scientific method.
Probably has less to do with religion and more with not being able to distinguish between reputable and non reputable sources.
if it's not from the church it's not reputable, and they're trained that way by the church from the moment they're kids.
I live in a country where nobody goes to church (France) and we have the same crazy persons.
And I go to church and I'm fully onboard with science, including vaccinations. So it's not church that's the problem, but people being dumb, which neither faith nor atheism can fix.
Meh not just the church, this dude probably gets all his news and science info third hand from Facebook groups fed with disinformation by recycled content from Russian bots
This. This has nothing to do with them reading reputable and non reputable sources. The Mennonites are extremely obedient to whomever their local leaders are, up to and including uprooting and leaving if they decide another location just needs more people. Not using vaccines when a lot of these folks aren't allowed to use the internet is not that much of a stretch.
Seriously, what exactly do you think "religious faith" is, if not strongly believing in something despite lack of evidence (i.e., exactly the antithesis of the Scientific Method)?
I'm just saying, there's plenty of secular anti-vaxxers who just believe it because they saw it on Facebook and don't understand that anyone can post whatever nonsense they want on there without repercussions.
That kid sadly became a victim of her parents belief that opinions are better than facts.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
That's because if he acknowledges he was wrong he also has to acknowledge he let his daughter die through neglect.
Not so hard to understand really.
We can simultaneously acknowledge that this idiot let his daughter die and that he will pay the ultimate price for that stupidity every day for the rest of his life.
If its your god's plan to unnecessarily murder innocent children, then your god can go fuck itself
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” - Isaiah 45:7 King James Version (KJV)
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Ignorance is dangerous.
Another line of thought: this is severe negligence, leading to death. Throw this guy in jail for homicide.
This is why pseudoscience at all levels is dangerous to a modern society. Including "harmless" shit like astrology. It encourages magical thinking and the disregard of science in favor of belief in something that "feels right."
Take that to its logical conclusion, and people die.
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He should be forcibly sterilized
Retroactively, but he was.
If he had gotten her the vaccine, what was she going to do? Die harder?
She was gonna turn into a gay frog, duh
She would have got woke gay autism
Totally rational point of view and not at all cult-like behavior. /s
Hopefully the rest of the family follows suit and just fucking dies. Morons.
The future needs to be letting idiots kill themselves or the fascists will continue to weaponize their stupidity
At the start of 1900, people were ignorant but knew a doctor would help them; these people are ignorant AND stupid.
"In measles we trust"
Should've tried Brawndo- It Has What Measles Doesn't Want!
OKAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SCREAMING AT EACH OTHER?
I LOST MY HEARING AID CAN YOU HELP ME FIND IT?
DID YOU CHECK YOUR EARS ? YOUR BATTERY MAY JUST BE DEAD!!
Nothing says love like preventing your child from having 1 small shot. Why even bother having kids?
Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross /
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Yeeeeah what about that, Sucka!?
Why is this in all caps?
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