"The whole point of democracy and freedom is that you convince people with words and not with sticks." This is just false, though. The whole point of democracy

"The whole point of democracy and freedom is that you convince people with words and not with sticks." This is just false, though. The whole point of democracy is to allow folks to have a voice in their politics, not to avoid forcing folks to do things. We force folks to do things all of the time. This is what laws do: Sometimes they are easy to follow, but we also know that if we don't have, say, building codes and food safety laws that some folks will cut too many corners building or add weird things to bread (like in the 1800's). Simply put, you aren't always going to be able to use words. And it seems vaccinations are similar.