This Dr gets it!
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It's complicated. The vaccine is relatively safe, effective, and has a proven track record of success, and there's no real pressure to develop alternative therapies when we don't have dozens of crippled kids and adults walking around to remind us of the problem.
Regarding choice, anti-natalists literally say the same thing about being born. They weren't given a choice of life any more than a child is given a choice whether to risk autism or potentially being crippled for life. Give the vaccine or wait until the child is old enough to decide for themselves, at which point the damage may already be done. That's why we entrust these decisions to parents.
I hope you don't take this as me dismissing your argument out of hand, by the way. It's a valid argument, one I use myself when it comes to certain religious surgeries., but I think the risk has to be weighed against the benefits on both sides of the decision.
It's funny, I can honestly say I never expected to have a conversation about the ethics of vaccines today, nor would I have expected to enjoy it so much.
I've always said it's hard to be angry with a full belly... maybe that's the solution, sit down at a meal with your opponents, then talk politics after everybody's eaten their fill...
=P just use the cheap stuff. It would be awuflly dumb (although hilarious) to steal somebody's plates and silverware and then get offended, because they were $5.99 at walmart for the whole set.