Consistency

It seems important. Consistency. Especially when it comes to one's worldview. Here's one short thing I laughed about recently - insignificant and I'm not that proud of picking it up, but hey.

There is a person I know. She's very antivaxxer, pro-nature and generally a very nice person, doing great job otherwise. I tried talking reason to her, but in a typical way she did her "internet research", which usually means siphoning down an imperial shittonne of delusional, irrational and self-contradicting crap (I'm sorry, some subjects really get my goat), and there is no way to get through that. Or at least I haven't found a way of getting through yet, not that I'm looking very hard, after all I have better things to do and who am I to preach to people anyway (sometimes I need a day off from that! :) Apparently, she's not a vegan I always thought she was. It's a stupidly small thing really, and as said previously, not something one could be happy writing about, but the point...

The point is that a rational... rational human being, let's call him Teddy, there should be a certain hierarchy of things to think about, take care of and protect himself from. You know, triage, certain order to life in general. For example imagine Teddy running from a big, bad bear. The bear is like 10 meters away, roaring. Two other Teddy's major problems is huge amount of tax next month and his swimming pool being infested with sharks. I mean, what is the problem at hand here? What should Teddy take care of first?

So, few hours later, Teddy comes back home, having successfully avoided being eaten alive. He goes on internet to see what can be done about those sharks, accidentally stumbles upon and anti-corpo page, and learns about vaccines, medicine, fiat currency and that he shouldn't go to far South, because he might fell off the disk of the Earth. Yep.

So, a rational human being could maybe sort it in some "immediate danger, possible danger" list and apply it... and do muuuch more reading. And the rational list would look like this:

1. There is no controversy about what's in the meat. Antibiotics, hormones, GMO (what are the animals fed? Utter and horrific crap usually, read about salmon farms). We know for a fact that meat is bad for you, unless you raise your own stock and know exactly the whole process of your animals being born and how they end up on your table. But the meat you buy? This is the first thing Teddy, being a rational being he is, drop.

2. Taxes. And money stuff in general. This is very real, and a rational being who seeks to break free from his cage should look at ways of becoming independent resource-wise.

3. Vaccines and big pharma - that's very controversial. Oh, unless you are a rational human being capable of reading scientific research and pages written in small print with long words. Then, after certain (not very short) amount of learning you can find that the loudest and most sensational news about how big pharma is out there to screw you over (erm, well, it is out ther eto screw you over of course, but it's not my point there) you will find that it is a MISDIRECTION deliberately used to distract you from taking care of real issues, which is point one and two above.

Ha.

It just seem so absurd to have no consistency - be an anti-vaxxer and a meat-eater - that's like.. schizophrenia, isn't it. I can much more respect irrationality with consequence and consistency :)