I realized that I misinterpreted your original post so I didnt really want to target you specifically anymore so that post wasnt really meant to target anyone. More so the intent with my post was just to be a bit more broad. Honestly i didnt read much else in this thread after yesterday morning. I'm just kind of venting randomly.

it's a fact that my decision has no bearing on the decisions of those millions of people

You want to assign the collective guilt of what happens based on the actions of millions of people to me but you can only actually assign 1/1,000,000th portion of that blame to me personally.

Similarly, the family gathering was happening regardless of if I attended personally or not so once again I would only theoretically be contributing a fraction of the risk generated by said gathering.

You can try your best to ignore these realities because it makes you feel good about yourself to moralize this **** but if anyone is deluded about the risks involved here it's you.

Also... Truth be told I like seeing my family and all but really it wouldn't have bothered me that much to skip it. It would've disappointed them more and got them irritated at me more so if you wanna accuse me of some sorta weakness here it would be caving to social/familial pressure.

In fact my sister and them want us to visit texas for my nieces birthday this summer and I said no. No more vacations for me till I have a car and bunch of other **** sorted out.

Nobody is giving you that much credit lmao

No you get 100% of the blame for your "but iwanna" reasoning. You can try your best to ignore these realities because it makes you feel good about yourself to moralize this **** but if anyone is deluded about the risks involved here it's you.

I get %100 of the blame for the risks added by me personally. Not by everyone who thinks like me.

Very good!

You're a ****ing pussy who can't admit to being morally lazy without simultaneously ducking responsibility. Sure, the probability of a spreader event was probably quite low but if it had happened and you had gotten sick or been the sick one who spread it then all your rationalizations would be meaningless and you would bear full responsibility for any consuquences for your actions.

So maybe you wanna rewind a bit and realize that I was responding to batlord saying the fact that I think I'm separate from the millions of other people who break certain covid guidelines is brain cancer. Functionally speaking I absolutely am separate. My decision has no bearing on anyone else's decision and the risk I am adding personally through attending a family gathering that is happening whether i attend or not i was negligible enough for me to take that risk.

I'm not ducking responsibility I'm saying you're inflating said responsibility. It's possible I could "lose the covid lotto" as you say but that's a negligible enough risk that I was willing to gamble on on a one time basis. If the gamble backfired and people got sick as a result I accept that would've been my fault and I'd have felt responsible. Not sure what else you want me to say... Sometimes I am willing to take risks. The very nature of taking a risk is that it could potentially backfire.

That means that you're a part of that group partaking in reckless behaviour that's made the pandemic more severe, not that you're the determining factor for their existence.

Agree to disagree that gatherings during a pandemic have negligible risk I guess.

...in order to lessen the amount of responsibility you're willing to own up to lol