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Should the government have a right to force people to get shots, see doctors and have surgery if its against there religion?
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I think it weird that the government requires americans have to get shots & see doctors yet that is expensive but if americans dont do it they are breaking the law.
Well, if nobody is going to defend it, I'll attempt to argue that side of the argument so that I may extend my skills....
Nobody goes to jail for not getting a shot. They may not be allowed to participate in public accommodations, but they aren't going to jail.
Requiring that you get shots for your kid before you send them to public school for instance, is a law meant to protect the other children from your own direct action to deny your children inoculations.
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arent shots giving a dose of whatever the viral is they are protecting you against?
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Those are not live virus shots; the virus has been killed and yet has enough characteristics to trigger an immune response in the recipient so that the patient then has developed an immunity to that particular virus.
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but if you dont want to put that in your body you should not have a right to public education?
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You don't have a right to expose others to the disease should you come down with it, which is a likely possibility if you refuse the vaccination.
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but if others opted to get the "shots" then they should be protected right?
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You're assuming that only one person in the institution would have refused the shots. If one does it there may be several, who then would be exposed. The risk to public health is unacceptable.
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I never had shots as a kid and went to public school, I dont know when the law changed. But Certainly anyone who opted not to have them back then understood there rights & choices and those who had the shots should have been protected according to whatever the shots say they do. So now its a mandatory law regardless of your belief about it.
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right but if other people get the viral shots they are supposedly protected yes?
First none of the shots are perfect. Secondly, there would be others who chose to not protect their children as well. Each of those children would be a potential danger to other children. You do not have the right to endanger others.
Nobody would put you in prison, but you likely need to find other education sources in some places other than the public school buildings.
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It used to be legal to opt not to go to doctors or get shots on religious grounds thats why I never had them or saw a doctor until I got married. So then if the government makes it mandatory for a vaccination you dont agree with, or take this medicine or that medicine or else you cant got to public school or maybe you cant work in a public environment, I mean yes school is a public place but so are libraries, jobs, anything outside of your house. It seems like some conservatives say they want less government but have no problem deciding that everyone has to go to a doctor or get vaccinations. Liberals don't seem that liberal if they arent allowing people to make a choice based on religious belief.
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well if they don't agree to get the shot.... hang em'!
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Its the law you have to put vaccinations in your body if you want to attend public school now. But it was not always the law, so its weird how that changed.
They can still opt out of going to the doctor, unless there is life or death on the line then the child will become a ward of the state but that is digressing....
People must understand that there are sometimes consequences. If you choose not to protect others, then you will need to find other educational opportunities.
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Well as an adult I shouldnt have to get shots or go to the doctor if its not in my belief system to do so. Yet as an adult I go to public places, so what about that?