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> Mandatory vaccines are a violation of liberty. They are not. Not vaccinating is a means of harming and killing people around you, which is not within boundar
by formerentourage 8y ago
> Mandatory vaccines are a violation of liberty.
They are not. Not vaccinating is a means of harming and killing people around you, which is not within boundaries of personal liberty. Theoretically, if you spent whole your life in wilderness far from other people, you could risk all diseases you want.
I strongly dislike this normalizing language of giving up some liberty "for greater good". All things that superficially look like this should be really either a defense of liberty or autonomy of others, or an exercise of collective political liberty of the people to shape the world around them. The latter is subject to political change if people change their minds, and still has to respect personal liberty as the primary aim of free society. We should not equate progress with imposing more and more restrictions that are supposedly objectively "good" in some abstract way, as determined by some people. This loosens the principles at best. Some people can reject them, but we should be clear when they do that.