[sethrin]

I was thinking that we need a stronger term than idiot, but it occurs to me that this behavior is actually criminal. It causes grievous harm to one's society, which is the criterion for criminal behavior. Therefore if social pressure is not sufficient to correct this behavior, legal means will need to be employed.

[andriesm]

What about people's individual rights? I don't want the community to tell me what to inject into my body? (Ps I am NOT anti-vax)

[sethrin]

Rights can be said to have a real existence only to the degree that society dictates, and only in a social context. Your will is not inviolate simply because you choose to frame it as a right. So the first answer to that question is that it must first be established that this is some sort of right that society has agreed to respect, and secondly you would have to take on the issue of the harm to society in order to argue whether the one or the other was more important.

Vaccinations are indeed something of an affront to one's physical person. So is collecting DNA evidence. I think that you will find upon further reflection that the physical integrity of one's body is not much affected by a vaccination, and that personal liberties do not extend to causing grievous bodily harm to others.

[FabHK]

People that refuse vaccination on the basis of their rights should be perfectly free to do so, but on some isolated island where they do not interact with the rest of humanity.