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> Why can I be forced to use seatbelts and vaccine skeptics are not forced to get the shot? This is a good question. While I'm 100% for people getting the vac
by cletus 5y ago
> Why can I be forced to use seatbelts and vaccine skeptics are not forced to get the shot?
This is a good question.
While I'm 100% for people getting the vaccine, I personally believe that forcibly vaccinating people is a dangerous precedent to set.
Anti-vaxxers like to argue "body autonomy" against vaccine mandates, which is a distortion because you actually do have body autonomy. No one is forcibly vaccinating you. It's just that choice comes with consequences. And for people who are bad at risk analysis, irrational, prone to suggestion, selfish or some combination of the above, they simply don't like there being negative consequences to their actions.
What I find particularly ironic is there seems to be a strong overlap between "body autonomy" anti-vaxxers and those that would deny a 15 year old rape victim from getting an abortion at 7 weeks.
- ifyoubuildit 5y agoAs an "antivaxxer" (not by any reasonable use of the word, but that seems to be the state of the language right now), I would not deny any rape victim from getting an abortion. I don't think I've observed this overlap you mention, other than being referenced in comments like yours. (I'm sure there are traditional pre-2020 antivaxxers out there, I just never come across them in real life) On bodily autonomy, I see a lot of this "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" kind of argument. Sure, technically nobody is using immediate physical force. By some strict literal interpretation, you are correct. I don't think that's what people have in mind when they say bodily autonomy though.