ext_3178: a penguin (justpretty - winter)
Neanderthal Gin ([identity profile] penguin-attie.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] attackfish 2014-11-13 12:48 pm (UTC)

Yeah. And she is old enough to have seen the devastating effects of most of these formerly common childhood illnesses when they were still rampant. But she also went to a Waldorf school and subscribed to Anthroposophy for a long time, so the naturalistic fallacy comes up a lot. I think there must be some hidden anti-vax sentiment still lurking, because as long as you're talking hypothetically she's all for vaccines but then when I was talking with her about how many shots I was going to have to get, she accused me of being "Impfgeil" - which is really hard to translate but maybe "are you thrill-seeking?!" could sort of get the sentiment across.

I... still can't wrap my head around that one.

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