Jacques de Molay
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Well, see, there's your problem --- "there's no point in generating ...|"
You, like most people, find it very, very difficult (well, impossible, actually) to suppose that there is no conscious purpose behind the creation of "us." That's one of those places that I left that path, because if I did once suppose there might be such a purpose, I then had to try to figure out what the purpose was for all the horrible, fearful ways in which we could die. If there was a purpose fo cattle (to feed us), then there had to be a purpose for cow-pox and mad cow disease.
When you start running into the endless contradictions that arise from presupposing a purpose to creation -- if you really, truly follow it through -- I cannot see how you can avoid all those contradictions.
I'm not anti-vax by any stretch of the imagination. I was vaccinated as a child, as were all of my children.
However, I am a vax-skeptic...And that has nothing to do with the science behind vaccinations. My skepticism is rooted in the too-cozy relationship between industry and gov't vis-a-vis vaccines (for example, Gardasil), as well as the blanket immunity granted to pharmaceutical companies who manufacture vaccines. The fact that one basically CANNOT sue a vaccine manufacturer for damages caused by vaccines should be troubling to anyone.