The anti-vaxers usually assume the harm argument points the other way: that vaccines cause actual harm, while the disease itself is mostly harmless (or does not exist at all). From their perspective, it is the sheeple believing whatever the Big Pharma tells them who are not just wrong, they’re harming children by giving them autism.
If you want to argue by appeal to harmful consequences, first you have to show those consequences. But either side will dismiss the data provided by the other side.
(Everyone is the good guy in their own story. The covid denialists also don’t go like “hey, I am an asshole and I don’t give a fuck whether your grandma dies”. Instead they tell you how face masks suffocate the kids and prevent them from developing social skills because they can’t see each other’s faces. From their perspective, it’s the people who want to stop covid who are the heartless bastards.)
The anti-vaxers usually assume the harm argument points the other way: that vaccines cause actual harm, while the disease itself is mostly harmless (or does not exist at all). From their perspective, it is the sheeple believing whatever the Big Pharma tells them who are not just wrong, they’re harming children by giving them autism.
If you want to argue by appeal to harmful consequences, first you have to show those consequences. But either side will dismiss the data provided by the other side.
(Everyone is the good guy in their own story. The covid denialists also don’t go like “hey, I am an asshole and I don’t give a fuck whether your grandma dies”. Instead they tell you how face masks suffocate the kids and prevent them from developing social skills because they can’t see each other’s faces. From their perspective, it’s the people who want to stop covid who are the heartless bastards.)