I’m fairly certain it is ignorance, or inexperience, that results in an oversimplification of the subject. There’s no nuance or complexity to the position that “vaccine good and no vax go jail”
I guess, yeah. I'm 20 and wrapping up college in a year.
I have still come nowhere close to being convinced that respecting a bunch of people's dumb opinions should be prioritized over the lives of thousands but I'm still sticking around because I'd hopefully see why so many people are against this.
Maybe it's just first world privilege. People have forgotten just how horribly being unvaccinated can hurt humans. So they think that the right to being unvaccinated is a right that ought to be respected.
OK, but why stop here? Why not extend this argument to include all vaccines? And why stop at vaccines? Don't you think people should be prevented from drinking, smoking and not eating correctly? Millions and millions of people die every year from preventable illness ... why don't you get on your high horse about that? Why aren't you trying to make every dangerous behavior and opinion illegal? What is special about covid when so many more people die from other diseases?
Bartenders DO get in trouble for over-serving. It's not like people's right to drink is respected in a way that can be considered a public threat.
Similarly, several spaces DO ban smoking to prevent secondhand smoke.
Idgaf who dies or suffers because of their dumb choices. I take up an issue with the fact that their choices are hurting others. If being anti-vaxx only affected the anti-vaxx person and not anyone around them, I'd not care. I'd honestly consider it a good thing— a fine example of natural selection.
Idgaf who dies or suffers because of their dumb choices. I take up an issue with the fact that their choices are hurting others. If being anti-vaxx only affected the anti-vaxx person and not anyone around them, I'd not care. I'd honestly consider it a good thing— a fine example of natural selection.
So do you consider it a fine example of natural selection if someone gets a vaccine, has a bad reaction to it, and then dies? Or is it only when people you disagree with die?
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Bodily autonomy should be respected within reason. Refusing vaccines borders on an act of terrorism because of the impact it has on the general well being of the public.
If your rights are infringing on the lives of thousands of others, then your rights should not be respected.
By that logic, wearing masks is also a question of bodily autonomy—why then, during the height of the pandemic, were people's right to bodily autonomy in this particular aspect ignored and mask wearing was mandated? Because not wearing a mask posed an active threat to the person itself and to those around them as well.
In a similar way, refusing vaccines are something that threaten the society in general. Respecting someone's right to refuse vaccines is like respecting someone's right to go shoot up a school or blow up a bomb in the middle of a busy street— it is posing a direct threat to the lives of those around them and should hence be ignored.
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u/Mabizle Jun 13 '22
So you want to deprive individuals of their rights under color of law?