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Originally Posted by Speakeasy
ABC News: Vaccinations or Jail? Parents Up in Arms
This is kind of creepy, in my opinion. I'm used to the government telling people what they can't put in their bodies, but this seems to be a first for the government telling you what you have to put in your body.
Does anyone agree with this policy? I'm a firm believer that the ultimate decision rests with the parents on deciding what gets injected into their children and what doesn't. It seems kind of messed up that the government is blocking education to anyone that doesn't get these inoculations.
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This is an interesting subject. Around here, inoculations are mandatory for a number of diseases. This has existed for decades and is rarely even questioned by young parents. I've always been quite sceptical of it. Medecine is a subject that is far from being totally explored and I seriously doubt whether the full implications of exposure to traces of these diseases are actually, or even can be, known. I doubt it is
necessarily always a good thing.
With mandatory inoculations there is always the risk of an alliance between a pharmaceutical company and a number of government officials, especially in countries prone to corruption, to make an arbitrary new invention mandatory for no other reason than profit.
Obviously most parents take the wellbeing of their children at heart so they will allow the inoculation if they deem it necessary based on the advice they personally gather from medical professionals. And the parents that are incapable or in some way too perverted that they don't take this wellbeing at heart, mess their kids up in a plethora of other ways,
reducing the relevancy of the lack of inoculation to practically nil.
So, no, inoculations should not be mandatory.