I interpreted "thorny" in the original editorial as suggesting it might be medically unethical to give a vaccine to children whose parents disagreed. Not the m

I interpreted "thorny" in the original editorial as suggesting it might be medically unethical to give a vaccine to children whose parents disagreed. Not the more generic observation that some people will protest against the government telling them what to do so the government will have to have a response in place. If the latter, there's also the "thorny" authoritarian forced duty UK parents have to educate their children, by sending them to school, home education, or something else, and if the home education is not found suitable, the child can be forced to attend the local school. I think mandatory education of children is an authoritarian measure, and I support it. I think mandatory vaccination of children for some cases, even contrary to what the parents wish, is also both authoritarian and yet not medically unethical. I'm going on the definition "authoritarian: demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish" at https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/authoritarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/authorit... as I think that's what most people mean in a survey like this. Other definitions include "favoring blind submission to authority" or "relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people" at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian but those don't seem appropriate.