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Originally Posted by morgin
I'm not him, but this is a ridiculous comparison. Government mandated preventative vaccination is not the same conversation as providing the medical necessities of life to a child in your care. They are in the same hemisphere of topics, but entirely distinct subjects.
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Ridiculous comparison? It's far more apt than forced sterilization certainly...
The parents did not believe in insulin, did not believe their child needed insulin, did not give their child insulin. This would have likely prevented a debilitating condition.
Parents who do not believe in vaccines, do not believe their child need vaccines, and do not give their child vaccines have now made their children susceptible to debilitating diseases. Yes, it's not quite the same...in this situation the parents are not only choosing for their child but also anyone else around their child.
In any case, that was never the argument. It wasn't that vaccines were good or not good. It was that the government does not have a right to force someone to put something into their body. Insulin or polio vaccine shouldn't make a difference to that argument.