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Can Pascal’s rationality rescue the pandemic vaccine?: My second essay in Blue Labyrinths

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How do you convince someone to take the coronavirus vaccine? This essay argues that we can do so by presenting to them a reasoned argument from theology, namely, Pascal's wager. See essay at  https://bluelabyrinths.com/2021/04/25/can-pascals-rationality-rescue-the-pandemic-vaccine/ The Triumph of Death (1532) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons