But they don't, that has become increasingly clear. As Alejo said, all the choices we make carry some level of risk, by taking the vaccine you risk
potential (not certain) injury or death, by not taking the vaccine you risk the same (maybe) depending on whether the governments take the vaccine mandates to their natural conclusion.
If the time comes when there's no other option, and taking the vaccine means you have a few extra months or a year, or longer to work on yourself & help your loved ones, is it not worth considering?
I may be wrong, but to me, it seems that being a martyr primarily serves the individual. I think we would be deluding ourselves if we thought that dying for this or that would affect the trajectory of the world. We only have to compare Nazi Germany to current times to see that the majority of people learned nothing, nada, history is repeating itself.
The people in Nazi Germany who didn't agree with what was going on and were killed for those beliefs, did their deaths affect the world at large or the future? Maybe they cemented the lesson for themselves that tyranny is bad and that personal sovereignty is important, but could they hide any jews under their beds when they were dead? Could they flee and tell anyone and everyone about the atrocities that had occurred? What would've been different, if anything, if they had been gentle as doves and wise as serpents? I don't know the answer, I'm just thinking out loud.
If the time comes when I am presented with this decision, I would ask myself, and I would want to be really sure that I wasn't lying to myself (by networking)- why am I resisting? Who am I resisting for? How will my resistance to the death affect those around me that I love and care for? What is my overall aim? Is my aim for resisting aligned with my overall aim?
It seems like some here are not open to nuance and are engaging in black and white thinking which is a bit of a red flag and could indicate that something needs examining. It reminds me of what Gurdjieff said about identification being our most terrible foe. Could it be that some folks are identified one way or the other and see this as a 'fight' to be won or lost, rather than sitting back and watching the show? I think I was identified with "the fight" at the start of this whole thing, and still, I get spurts of those feelings, but it's so rigid and doesn't take into account the bigger picture. For me, I think it was coming from fear of the future, anger that reality was not conforming to how I thought it should be, materialistic in a way - that my body was all the mattered and knowledge and being had nothing to do with it, but it will be different for everyone.
ISOTM:
This could easily be misconstrued as advocating for parents to kill children rather than let them be injected. See
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But are you supporting the beast with the act of getting the vaccine alone, or is it believing the lie and the intent that is important? Is the devil in the details? I imagine there's a big difference between someone who gets the vaccine because they think it's their savior, and someone who gains knowledge and sees the reality of the situation, takes all the necessary precautions and takes the vaccine because they need to for certain reasons.