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To: Alter Kaker

Not against medicine...not against technology. In fact I started a technology company and have a nice life. I am against totalitarianism in any form. Especially when it affects my family. To you, our trust in God is evil even though prior to 1950, virtually no one had vaccinations. You faux conservatives are worse than the hippies and certainly do not support a Freerepublic.


27 posted on 06/26/2015 7:28:54 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
I am against totalitarianism in any form. Especially when it affects my family.

I'm a strong proponent of individual rights. But your right to swing your first ends where the next person's nose begins. If you want to refuse medical treatment for yourself, I respect your decision. The difference between medical treatment and vaccination is that when you refuse to get vaccinated you're not just making a decision about your own health but about other people's. That's why public safety - in that particular case - trumps personal preference.

To you, our trust in God is evil even though prior to 1950, virtually no one had vaccinations.

Prior to 1950 the infant mortality rate was astronomically higher. In 1934, 55.7 babies in the United States died for every 1000 born. Today it's only 6.17. If you were a farmer and refused to plant corn because you "trusted in God" to plant it for you, people would laugh and simply think you were a lunatic. However that foolish decision would rest with you. Trusting in God and refusing to vaccinate isn't just your own lunacy, however, because it endangers your neighbors.

28 posted on 06/26/2015 8:35:36 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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