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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
I wonder if the law will eventually allow for parents of unvaccinated children to be charged with a crime if their child spreads an easily preventable disease to a child who is too young or otherwise medically unable to be vaccinated.
Maybe not murder (although that is what it looks like), but child endangerment, or abuse.
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I would imagine that in the US this might go through in a civil lawsuit. (Proving it would be really hard though.)
Personally I think some of the parents who's kids have died of preventable diseases because they didn't get them vaccinated should be sentenced for criminally negligent manslaughter (or something equivalent). Just to drive the point through.
Everybody is entitled to their beliefs, as long as those beliefs don't kill people.
I'm glad that people are taking such a strong stand on this. Problems like vaccination scares and other anti-intellectual tinfoilery can only be fought by talking about it.
I mean yes, I understand the OP in the sense that vaccinations are frankly somewhat incomprehensible and at the end of the day, yes, we need to trust doctors and pharmaseutical companies on this.
However, a society does not work and it does not develop if people stop trusting the knowledge it has gathered.
Trusting talk-show talking heads is not a real option, it's just replacing a set of actual experts with self-proclaimed ones.
(Also, those talking heads are just as much in the discussion for the profit as the pharmaseutical industry.)