Title: Bad day and ranting a bit, sorry. Just reached a very strange WTF moment. I&#x27;ll be submitting my notice at work on Tuesday (it&#x27;s a holiday on Monday). I&#x27;m no rock star programmer, I just hit my tolerance limits for ignoring problems on the purely professional front.<p>Then, later today I went for a drink with a colleague,  only to find he&#x27;s a holocaust denier, Hitler was only trying to do the right thing etc. I found I couldn&#x27;t mount any argument against his views - I had been indoctrinated etc, etc.<p>And then I come home and have a chat with my normally right-on room-mate, and somehow we get onto vaccinations,  and she&#x27;s considering not vaccinations her (future) kids on the basis her cousin hasn&#x27;t vaccinated here and they&#x27;re ok. And she is deeply suspicious of vaccinations in the face of decades of evidence supporting them. She left the room. I had tried to explain the basis of vaccinations, herd effect etc but just upset her (though calling her potentially negligent really did not help).<p>It&#x27;s a day where no amount of attempts at explanations are sticking.  On the professional front, oddly enough,  I&#x27;m more accepting of that.  But facts and history that I hold more dear are just getting eroded.  Is there a way to convince and persuade without alienating people?
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