Are Anti-Vaxxers Psychopaths?

Let's say you wanted to kill millions of people without getting your hands dirty.

You could invent some heinous form of chemical weapon and release it in a large metropolitan area hoping the wind will work to your advantage.

Hardly a prescription for success.

You'd also have to become very skilled at chemistry and biology. There must be a better way.

How about mushroom clouds?

Good luck getting your mittens on some fissionable material without a whole pile of large federal agents in dark suits taking you away for a one way fishing trip to Death Valley.

There's got to be an easier way...

How about convincing people to not do the thing that has already saved millions of lives?

You get to keep your hands clean.

You're not technically doing anything wrong.

You get to employ your manipulative skill set on a population that has the common sense of roofing tar.

Plus; in our anti-rational world two things are obvious:

Facts are dead.

Only opinions matter.

If you convince just a few people to not vaccinate their kids an exponential increase in disease can start up and quickly spread over a wide area as people travel.

If a handful of not-vaccinated morons don't get sick you can blow it out of proportion and point at them as "proof" that Disease X isn't dangerous.

If someone says, "isn't that sort of like saying my grandfathers survived WW2 so war isn't dangerous?" you can call that person a communist or "one of them".

Remember...these idiots voted for Trump.

You can convince them to do anything.