This is just getting ridiculous now.
I get where this comes from. There's times I've sat there and thought about wishing judgement, suffering, pain on these people I perceive to be pathetic and weak and bending the knee, rolling over so easily and ruining the world for all of us.
Then I remember how often I have to repeat stupid mistakes to learn really basic lessons in life, how humanity is just that on a grand scale. Who the hell am I to judge? And who are you to judge?
You sound like those rabid lefties who hate their parents for some perceived racism or lack of woke ideology etc.
Many in this thread are now seeing this from a "battle for the soul" perspective. If you ask me, if you are identified with something that has such a hold over you to create such a bitter, hateful thought with total lack of compassion, empathy and perspective, you can be pretty sure STS are currently winning the battle for your soul.
I'm sorry, but it seems that you are responding to your own interpretation, not to what was said. Why do you assume hate and ill-intent?
I feel like I understand what was said, because I had to say similar to my pro-vax brother. Not that I think it is appropriate towards a grandmother, too harsh to be a functional communication, but there is a point in there that can hardly be expressed otherwise.
For context, both my brother and his wife are jabbed, intellectually smart but tending to conformism. Even as of month ago he still disbelieved types of adverse events. I have no problem with that, but he has 5 children, and now our province is opening up the jabs to their age category. We were talking about it, I mentioned how serious the thrombosis/clotting/myocarditis looked as a pattern, he retorted, 'yeah, but that's only for men' (he has 4 daughters, 1 son). He had the intonation that it was no big matter, and it would be done either way. I had to answer, "well, you've got 5, if you get them jabbed at the rate it's going odds are you'll lose 1 by the time they're 18. Don't expect me to show up to the funeral.'
I delivered the line, not dead-pan, just dead serious. It was harsh, intended to strike a nerve. So what? Do you think reality would be any less harsh to him if one of his daughters became disabled, or worse, from the jab? Do you think I would judge myself any less harshly then, if I knew I hadn't even made a move to embody the harbinger?
When I said that, it was silent, so I couldn't say it was like a lightning bolt hit him. But it felt like it, Who knows what considerations he went into. I didn't ask, nor will I have to concern myself with it again with his personal business. He knows I fully respect his authority to his children, but I also communicated my perspective in a single statement. "I'm not going to empathize with you if you're the one to bring them down when you should already know better", is what it meant. I'm pretty sure he was smart enough to realize it.
Anyways. That's what Neil's words reminded me of. They sounded somewhat harsher, I'd say due to speaking to a grandmother who's not necessarily equipped with the context to understand the hidden implications of that heart-cry. It'd probably be best to patch things up if possible, to clarify the meaning, especially now that it's a
fait accompli either way. But I understand why it the communication seemed necessary in the moment.