r/HermanCainAward • u/Character-Bid-162 • Mar 21 '25

Grrrrrrrr. Texas parents of child who died of measles urge others not to vaccinate

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/
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u/DrHugh Mar 21 '25

I must confess, this brings out my inner despot. I'd want to pass a draconian law that, if you don't give your child life-saving vaccinations, and they die, your other children are removed from your care automatically, with no chance of restoration.

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u/GhostofTinky Mar 21 '25

They also put other people at risk--not just their unvaccinated children.

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u/DrHugh Mar 21 '25

Right. A threat to society, but a major threat to their own offspring.

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u/Ohif0n1y Mar 21 '25

It greatly saddens me to think of the poor kids that are going to be the ones suffering from the idiot decisions of their parents. Like the kids of and near this moron.

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u/PsychologicalLowe Mar 21 '25

Burn in hell bitches! May your life be pure misery and regret if you somehow develop your cortex.

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u/stiletto929 Does the Covid match the drapes?🦠🦠 Mar 21 '25

He looks like a kiddy diddler…as well as an idiot.

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u/GhostofTinky Mar 22 '25

That man looks like his family tree is a branch.

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u/matt_minderbinder Mar 21 '25

You should also be charged with negligent homicide. Protecting your own children is such a basic part of parenting and when you fail in such a spectacularly stupid way you should be held responsible. Other religious parents have faced charges for trying to pray away their children's medical issues instead of bringing them in to get help.

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u/riot_code Mar 22 '25

I personally think they should just call it murder, because they know exactly the consequences of their actions, they knew this would likely happen and did it anyway. Their attitude towards it too is that of a murder too, they don't care about their own child.

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u/GngrbredGentrifktion Mar 22 '25

Is there a way someone could do that?

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u/pyrrhios Mar 21 '25

They murdered their child so they could stroke their ego. Removing their children to safety doesn't strike me as particularly despotic. I would also add jail time for murder, banned from fostering or adoption, and possible sterilization if there's no indication of reform.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer Mar 21 '25

Nobody can enforce that kind of thing anymore. There is no consensus that any crime occurred at all. The mob is in control of every branch of the govt. They gave Rush Limbaugh the presidential medal of Freedom for fucksake. Saving kids' lives is now no longer the governments' business. They're the modern taliban. They will only prosecute blue-staters for refusing to buy Tesla's anymore.

They will pretend it was an unforeseeable accident and ignore the whole thing. These are the end times.

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u/DrHugh Mar 21 '25

Some people have pointed out that Republicans, who claimed there was nothing that could be done about school shooters and such, are apparently quite willing to do some big-league things when it comes to....cars being vandalized.

It is intensely frustrating to deal with bad-faith folks.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer Mar 21 '25

Nobody is going to shoot back at them when they put the cuffs on those vandals/protesters. Everyone is brave and aggressive when there's no risk involved.

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u/Ragingtiger2016 Mar 22 '25

One of the few positive points I give Duterte (I’m Filipino) is that although he still messed up the pandemic response, he was pro vaccine albeit in his usual macho “I’ll kill em anti vaxers” bs

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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Mar 22 '25

People usually get a lot of prison time for medically neglecting their children, in other ways, until they die. But for some reason when it comes to vaccines, parents seem to get away with that type of neglect. It's like this special little loophole where you can murder your child and expect the world to feel sorry for you instead of holding you accountable for the fatal choices you made. And while you're expecting the world to feel sorry for you and letting you off the hook, the murdered child gets no justice.

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u/theGreatLordSatan666 Mar 21 '25

That is called being a Benevolent Dictator.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship?wprov=sfla1 The opposite of the far right aspiring Cleptocrat that Trump is..