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It isn’t a false equivalence since they both violate body rights. You cannot say that all vaccines are not harmful because you cannot speak for future injection
by hndamien 8y ago
It isn’t a false equivalence since they both violate body rights. You cannot say that all vaccines are not harmful because you cannot speak for future injections. Many people actually believe circumcision isn’t harmful, and the belief is what matters.
The WHO actually has a page specifically for dealing with adverse effects of vaccinations. http://vaccine-safety-training.org/immunization-error-related-reaction.html http://vaccine-safety-training.org/immunization-error-relate...
Then you have cases like Thalidomide that were medical tragedies, although not vaccine related, we conducted with the best of medical intention.
The question is not are vaccines statistically beneficial (they are).
It is not, does medicine have a 100% hit rate at not causing adverse effects (it doesn’t and that is ok).
The question is, are you violating somebodies body rights by forcing them to undergo a potentially harmful procedure without their consent. Yes, you would be. This is why we don’t force this today.
- komali2 8y agoI never argued for it to be forced - I argued that it would be necessary for inclusion in a community.
- hndamien 8y agoYou defended "Should we allow people a choice or establish dictatorship in important social issues?" with the caveat "if a community decides" its not a dictatorship. That is implying, the community gets to decide violation of somebody's body rights else they must leave the community (regardless of whether or not they chose to be part of it, and if there was any cost to leaving.)