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Inviso posted...

For me, it's also the general level of malice involved in the decision. I'm aware that there are plenty of non-GOP idiot antivaxxers, but for a lot of people, they've tied their identity to hating Democrats, and therefore going out of their way to do whatever the Democrats don't want them to do, up to and including ignoring a deadly virus because their cult leader told them it was a hoax, specifically designed to target him, personally. These people make idiotic decisions out of spite and hatred, and work to convert others to make those same decisions out of further spite and hatred. It's really hard not to feel like justice has been served when they run afoul of their own bullshit.

This. That's a difference between someone who merely makes bad or risky choices and suffers for it. I feel sadness to those who, say, get addicted to drugs and die from overdoses. But most of these anti-vaccination, covid denying people aren't just simply ignorant, they're aggressively ignorant. They made these choices as a deliberate hostile measure to go against people and ideas they hate. And it's not like it was merely a choice they made for themself, they go out of their way to insult and harass people who are trying to make better decisions online and in person. Even aside from the damage their refusal to vaccinate causes to others by itself, their response against even the most innocuous of requests, like wearing a mask in public, are so vitriolic and unnecessary it's upsetting. When a person like that has those decisions they made blow up in their face, well, it's not joyful. But there is a certain reassuring feeling to know that kind of behavior did not continue scot-free without any consequences. How many people have those people hurt because of what they chose to be?

And it's not just a negative feeling of retribution. That subreddit also has stories of people who were deeply into that mindset, but after seeing the harsh reality of others who were like them paying for their actions, decided to take better care of themselves and get vaccinated. It's been so frustrating to see how we as a society have been trying to get through this disaster and have been working hard on safety guidelines and preventative measures that have been thoughtlessly tossed aside and ignored by so many, so anything that gets people to wake up and realize what's at stake helps reduce that aggravation. It's not getting "joy" or "pleasure" from hearing these comeuppances, it's the tension-calming feeling to know that the world is making sense when more and more it feels like it hasn't been. That good decisions are being rewarded, and terrible ones are not.

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Okay, I rolled a 14. What's that mean? Hsu
That you're a cheater. This is a 12-sided die. Chan