RE: Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right
February 27, 2012 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2012 at 9:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Public toilet seat,maybe, outhouse in the middle of the woods. It was most likely direct physical contact. My family used to live next to a large fundy nutter community who were absolutely certain that vaccinations were against the will of god. You see, infectious disease is just a function of this rock, inescapable and completely in accordance with His will. Probably uses it to punish the sinners. My uncle and a few other children got polio, but polio isn't fair...and it wasn't the nutters children who ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives (not to mention a laundry list of other assorted issues), nor was the carrier (whoever the fuck that asshole was) laid low. I'm sure they pointed to my uncle Chuck as proof that god loved them, since their kids got polio too and didn't end up like him, godless heathen that he was.
Our concepts of rights, and our motivations for them (in this case religious, in others secular) all have their origins in a time when things like this were a complete or relative unknown. Perhaps our dated ideologies are not up to the task of handling an issue for which they were not designed, or for which no consideration had been given before they become the gospel fucking word. Our rights mean jack shit if they erode the stability of our continued existence here in whole or in part. There have to be people to have rights, and if our rights are fucking killing people just how well thought out are they? These rights can't just sound good, they have to work, and they have to be applied in an intelligent manner. The right to subvert or endanger others by ignoring or rejecting public health policies should not be available.
Our concepts of rights, and our motivations for them (in this case religious, in others secular) all have their origins in a time when things like this were a complete or relative unknown. Perhaps our dated ideologies are not up to the task of handling an issue for which they were not designed, or for which no consideration had been given before they become the gospel fucking word. Our rights mean jack shit if they erode the stability of our continued existence here in whole or in part. There have to be people to have rights, and if our rights are fucking killing people just how well thought out are they? These rights can't just sound good, they have to work, and they have to be applied in an intelligent manner. The right to subvert or endanger others by ignoring or rejecting public health policies should not be available.
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