Should not vaccinating your child be a criminal offence?

[Pat Mustard]

I believe parents should be allowed not vaccinate their children as long as they fuuly accept the civil and ciminal liabilities that come with that decision (i.e. they get done for murder if another child dies because of a disease their child passes on). Not immunising your children is the height of selfishness, not only are you needlessly endangering your children  you are endangering the children of non-neglecting parents too.

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How the heck is anyone supposed to prove that a particular unvaccinated child did spread it to another particular child? Besides, once the child is dead, no amount of punishment  is gonna bring them back, so we need laws to prevent that outcome beforehand. Though, laws won't be enough to solve this, only real education can be a cure for idiocy. It would be a good first step for America to fix its homeschooling system. Sure children sometimes do have circumstances that require homeschooling, but the system is way too relaxed. Laws should ensure that the parents or whoever is responsible for teaching the kid does indeed have the requisite educational qualifications themselves and the progress should also be monitored. Without education, we get the current idiot population who are willing to believe in all sorts of nonsense

If another child in the same school dies of a disease another child is unvaccinated for, that's proof enough for me. And if there are more unvaccinated children we can apply joint and several liability.