Re: U.S. Soldier's Death Is Tied To Vaccines

Rich Shewmaker wrote:
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> I always wonder what anti-vac people have to gain by preventing
> vaccination. Why do they do it? Is it just ill will toward science
> and conventional medicine in general? Or is it genuine hatred of
> children of the world and a desire for more people to die of
> infectious disease?

IMHO/E they do it as some sort of "validation exercise". When I was
younger I was a "political animal" active in the UK trade union movement
and various "pressure groups". I had something to prove and I would have
argued black was white rather than "back down".

This attitude stemmed from (I later learned) my desire to be
"empowered". I would have done *anything* to argue *my* cause,
irrespective of contrary evidence presented to me.

Many people are like this. They are invariably insecure and suffer low
self-esteem and are driven by a desire to be "heard".

The reasons for this may be many, but those reasons are inextricably
linked to a hurt of some kind, a major contributing factor (although not
in all cases) being childhood abuse/rejection.

This "wanting to be heard" is nearly always targeted at authority or
"mainstream thinking" which acheives two goals. A rejection of authority
or authoritarian figures (the main abusers) and an assertion of "I'm
different, I don't need you" which actually masks the *real* desire
which is to *not* be different.......to be accepted by those who
abused/rejected but who experience has shown, can not be "reached". If
the abused feels rejected, they in turn abuse/reject.

They are blinded by their hurt and their hatred for those they feel have
hurt them/let them down. They are trapped within their hatred and
confusion, desperately wanting to be wanted, but hating those they want
to want them, so they reject all that the "wanted" represent.

They can only be helped by therapy, or by realising their own plight and
"letting go, and moving on" (a cliche, I know:)

A simplification, I fear........here endeth the first psychobabble
lesson.

kev.........no longer angry.