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Originally Posted by opendoor
What are the risks? Assuming we're talking about proven safe vaccines that 99% of sensible people would get anyway.
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You seriously can't think of a single risk in giving the government 100% control over vaccinations?
I'm not anti-vaxx at all, 0% anti vaxx. I'm anti mandatory vaccination.
When you read about things like the Tuskegee experiments or the Guatemala studies you have to stop and realize that 100% trust in government in regards to vaccinations is a huge mistake.
Maybe it would even be legitimate to start, but the very nature of government mandated vaccinations logically leads to abuse of power with the same kind of abuse of power the Zimbardo studies showed.
I'd take the option right off the table? Is it seriously an issue that people aren't vaccinating their kids and others suffer? If so education would do a lot more benefit than forcing it on eveyrone. Let it also be noted that some people should not be vaccinated as children due to medical issues such as epilepsy.
Based on history the first risk would be to minorities if the power was abused. Before you'd say the government would never do that let's remember the Canadian government had jails for native children where they were abused and conditioned to forsake their identity, until 1996.