The pro-vax mandate argument claims that bodily autonomy should be violated because it supposedly prevents a 0.05% chance of death of an innocent person. (usually adult)
I, for one, am honored to give up some liberties so that I may help others.
What about sodomy? Receptive anal intercourse is an order of magnitude more likely to spread HIV/AIDS[1] than vaginal intercourse. Maybe what happens in the bedroom should be "curtailed for the common good"?
The problem is, there are no rights to be healthy and not to catch a respiratory disease and the virus doesn't threaten the existence of the state with a 0.05% mortality rate in old and sick people.
> I, for one, am honored to give up some liberties so that I may help others.
I'm not sure to decide if you're a troll or not.
Someones choice to not get vaccinated HAS led to significant deaths at this point. Via overloaded health systems, spreading the disease and of course, the much higher likelihood of death for those who are unvaccinated.
Drawing a parallel to abortion is absurd.
* government control over media (especially which is non-christian, relating to LGTBQ subjects/characters, covering the history of racial discrimination, etc)
* freedom to humanely end one's own life out of a conscious, informed decision to do so
* the right to wear as little or as much clothing as you want, including covering your head entirely
* a woman having easy, unrestricted access to contraceptives and abortion
* immigration policies (the right to travel freely in search of a better life)
* the death penalty
* how freely you should be able to end another person's life (ie very loose carry and self defense laws)
* easy, accommodating access to voting
You being pregnant does not increase the risk of my pregnancy.
In the case of abortion, the right of the fetus to its life should be balanced with the bodily autonomy of the mother.
You can make a much stronger argument against mandatory Covid vaccination, since it is mostly about an adult making decisions about their own health.
What is the incremental increase in covid deaths attributable to one person choosing not to get vaccinated, accounting for the fact that vaccination decreases but doesn’t eliminate the chances of passing on covid? What’s that compared to the incremental deaths caused by other activities?
I don’t know why you’d call that a “fringe belief.” Fully 38% of the public holds that view: https://www.wbur.org/npr/730183531/poll-majority-want-to-kee....
I suspect when most people assert that “life doesn’t begin at conception” they’re not referring to the literal beginning of human life, but the metaphysical question of when “human life that justifies legal protection” begins. That I agree is complex.
