Vaccination exemption in CA, personal down, medical up

[Rev. Rye]

Wow, so for the record, you endorse infanticide. OK then. As an atheist I find that position morally repulsive and it has changed my perception of you forever.

I think she was talking about differentiation of motives, like how the scaremongering in the Anti-vaccination movement (at least in America, unlike those pockets of the Muslim world where extremists fight efforts to eradicate polio because they’re afraid it’s part of some genocide plot) and more to people spreading information that’s misleading, if not outright wrong (which is the case more often than not). Unfortunately, it seems her libertarian ideals have led her to give the anti-vaxxers far more benefit of the doubt than they really merit. She’s really a thoughtful person, but sadly, her thoughtfulness doesn’t always translate into thinking things through. Emotion has its place, but sometimes you have to step back and think through it all and see if what you’re advocating is all that morally or intellectually sound. To revise an old Fritz Lang quote “the mediator between the hands and the heart must be the head.”