I don’t care if people are pro or anti vax. I actually think there are good reasons to be on both sides of this coin. I don’t mind having a rational discussion about those things. But I will not stand for the gov’t forcing vaccines.
Yes. But consider: 1. I suppose we'd agree that it is appropriate for government to step in against the rights of the parent if the parent is, say, boiling his child in hot water. This would be an intervention in a case of COmmission.
2. We'd likely also agree that if a rate of 100% of village children sent to the village playground were being eaten by tigers during the month of June, and that in July, most parents stopped sending their children to the playground, but Sally nevertheless sent her child to the playground, (where we were all entirely confident that Sally's child would be eaten by a lion), that we'd want government to intervene with the child.
The lives saved by vaccines is a very, very large number. The lives saved from non-lethal illnesses is a very, very large number.
I don't have the data at hand, but my sense is that being anti-vaccine is close to legal parental negligence, on the basis of statistical numbers. I'm on the side of the parental choice here, but the anti-vax parent is engaging in high risk negative outcome behavior here, based on my study of the numbers.