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Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by cactus2093 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:55AM (#27402590)
There are tens of millions of people in the US who were careless, got covid, and then spread it to others in the past year who have more blood on their hands than anyone who cut a vaccine line. Vaccine line cutting is just such a bizarre thing to take a hard moral stance on. And even now months later when the opposite problem of vaccine hesitancy is a much bigger concern, you’re still calling someone out for not even having done it but for perhaps having inadvertently encouraged others to do it.

I’ve seen a lot of pointless internet fights but this is truly next level.

Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by captainredbeard on Saturday June 05, 2021 @10:38AM (#27405425)
Are people culpable for flu deaths, too? That’s a shaky chain of responsibility.
Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by gfodor on Saturday June 05, 2021 @11:24AM (#27405808)
In relative terms hey are in a worse position than those who theoretically got a flu vaccine by violating distribution rules, if such a thing existed, was I think the point.
Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by CRConrad on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:00AM (#27460173)
> Vaccine line cutting is just such a bizarre thing to take a hard moral stance on.

Even if we stipulate that a hard moral stance may be "bizarre", it's still at least rather dubious, isn't it?

So, it's certainly more bizarre to excommunicate someone for merely pointing it out.