| What? No. Sex is a normal part of life, but even if it wasn't this is a ridiculous analogy. If I get this vaccine I protect both myself and any future partners I may have. There is no downside (barring potential vaccine side effects). Your statement is essentially equivalent to: Buying condoms because you might decide to sleep around (oral or otherwise) is like carrying a weapon because you might decide to get in a fight. Rape exists, but so do murderous assaults. The logic that says you need to use a condom is the same logic that says you need to carry a weapon. Hopefully it's clear how damaging that thinking can be? Getting this vaccine is cheap and effective, and in no way similar to carrying a gun. The worst part, of course, is that you can contract the virus (and the cancer) through kissing! I guess if you make sure you only ever kiss one person, and you know for sure that they have only ever kissed you, and will only ever kiss you in the future, and you and they both have never performed oral sex on anyone, or had sex with anyone else - maybe then you don't need the vaccine. Deriding the suggestion that we should prevent easily preventable cancer (you call up images of rape and murder!) is way off base. |
Not that I specified "gun", but I know people who regularly carry one. It is cheap and effective, and it will protect partners too, just like condoms.