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Moral imperative of forced medicine meeting the moral imperative to protect the weak. Who has more rights ?

by geggam 8y ago

dogma1138 8y ago
We take money form you to feed and care for people that can’t take care of them selves, we will take your children away from you if you put them at risk sometimes for a silly reasons as leaving a child home alone, we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different.
- esaym 8y ago
  > we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different Because in america we believe in an individual's personal right and a limited government. A government free to take your children away when there is no immediate danger would certainly violate this.
colemickens 8y ago
A cop out: why don't we do something to address the education system that allows people to hold so strongly these anti-scientific conclusions? Don't want to stray off topic, but, as a society, we seem to have an increasing inability to distinguish junk science and random opinions passed as fact, from, you know, actual science. If people understood herd immunity, understood that the underpinnings of the anti-vax movement are based on debunked fraudulent science, etc, this "anti-vax" situation would've never come into being.
quickthrower2 8y ago
I think this is the wrong question. Strong or weak I don't think it is in anyone's interest to have a large percentage of the population die due to rampant disease. So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water.
- mwwilson 8y ago
  "So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water." Unfortunately comments like this convey misinformation and could help to spread anti-vax positions. There's very little research to suggest that ingestion of fluoride has any positive health impact. Comparing the two issues is quite misleading.

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Moral imperative of forced medicine meeting the moral imperative to protect the weak. Who has more rights ?

by geggam 8y ago

Moral imperative of forced medicine meeting the moral imperative to protect the weak. Who has more rights ?

dogma1138 8y ago
We take money form you to feed and care for people that can’t take care of them selves, we will take your children away from you if you put them at risk sometimes for a silly reasons as leaving a child home alone, we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different.
- esaym 8y ago
  > we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different Because in america we believe in an individual's personal right and a limited government. A government free to take your children away when there is no immediate danger would certainly violate this.
colemickens 8y ago
A cop out: why don't we do something to address the education system that allows people to hold so strongly these anti-scientific conclusions? Don't want to stray off topic, but, as a society, we seem to have an increasing inability to distinguish junk science and random opinions passed as fact, from, you know, actual science. If people understood herd immunity, understood that the underpinnings of the anti-vax movement are based on debunked fraudulent science, etc, this "anti-vax" situation would've never come into being.
quickthrower2 8y ago
I think this is the wrong question. Strong or weak I don't think it is in anyone's interest to have a large percentage of the population die due to rampant disease. So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water.
- mwwilson 8y ago
  "So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water." Unfortunately comments like this convey misinformation and could help to spread anti-vax positions. There's very little research to suggest that ingestion of fluoride has any positive health impact. Comparing the two issues is quite misleading.