Quote:That's the medical opinion of one person, there's others that argue we should have mandatory diets, mandatory exercise programs, and while we're at it let's make sure we as a society approve of what parents teach their kids. You know some people would argue a specific belief system is unhealthy for children to learn so we should just make sure children are taught all the belief systems so they can make up there own mind. The state not the parents should be the final authority.


If any of that made you uncomfortable you can't support mandatory vaccinations and oppose any of the above. You choose, I leave the authority with parents until abuse or neglect is established.

 

Freedom is an ideal that we should strive to attain.   No argument.    The argument comes when your freedom conflicts with my freedom.   For example, if you refuse to vaccinate your child, you are allowing your child to endanger others by potentially catching some disease and infecting others.   Your child could then wind up in the hospital, and if enough children wind up in the hospital for the same reason, not getting vaccinated, then the health care system gets overloaded and cost go up for all of us, especially when some of them can't pay their hospital bill.  

 

I don't know where to draw the line.   But we have to start by acknowledging that, as the old saying goes, your freedom ends at the point of my nose.  

 

It's not a simple question, where to draw the line, because sometimes, more freedom for you means less freedom for me.  

 

As far as your idea that the parents should be the final authority over what their children learn, and not the state, what if the parents wanted to teach their children to be terrorists or criminals?   That's an extreme example, but it illustrates my point that there is a line somewhere where the state has to step in, for the good of all of us.   That line does exist.  

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