Philosophical Vegan Forum

This sums it up pretty well:

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/science/this-pro-science-comic-about-vaccines-is-so-simple-even-a-rabid-anti-vaxxer-can-understand-it-image/

Ravenworks wrote:So everyone believes the government should have the right to inject your children against your wishes. A little disturbing.

Getting vaccinated is not like getting fed, it's a silly comparison. Putting 100% faith in vaccines means putting 100% percent faith in the body issuing them. To advocate forceful vaccination means you accept the government has your best interests at heart all of the time and forever. I don't trust the government.

Where do you draw the line at what should be mandatory vaccination and what should be optional? If they develop a vaccination for something as harmless as the common cold should that be mandatory too?

Since when has every parent known what is best for their child? Have you ever heard of instances where parents try to treat their children's illnesses with prayer? It usually ends with their child dying.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/faith_hea ... protection

Why shouldn't every child receive vaccines? It prevents death from lethal diseases, many diseases used to kill thousands of people a year, but not anymore thanks to vaccines.

http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/ ... ogram.html

Ravenworks wrote: Getting vaccinated is not like getting fed, it's a silly comparison.

It's more important than feeding your children. If you do not feed your children, your children die. If you do not vaccinate them, you put all children -- and the rest of society -- at risk for the diseases you're spreading.

I could even understanding advocating for the right to euthanize your own children if you don't want them any more. But you do not have the right to turn yourself into a festering disease vector and put other people around you at risk.

Ravenworks wrote: Putting 100% faith in vaccines means putting 100% percent faith in the body issuing them.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.
This has nothing to do with trusting the government; vaccinations are clearly safe and effective, based on the practice of hundreds of thousands of doctors -- fellow citizens and human beings who relate to their patients one on one.

For childhood vaccination, you only have to trust that nearly a hundred thousand pediatricians in the U.S. are not nefariously plotting to kill all of the children they look after. That's not called faith, that's called sanity.

garrethdsouza wrote:This sums it up pretty well:

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/science/th ... -it-image/

Great comic.
Would it not be better to post the original link?

https://thenib.com/vaccines-work-here-a ... e3d0f9ffd0

Fewer ads, and it helps direct traffic to the original creator's site (unless that site is bad for some reason?).