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If you were a good parent, you'd read up on what the risks were for vaccinations vs catching the disease and realize that even the worst performing vaccines are 300+ times less dangerous than an infection, instead of relying on Jenny McCarthy's fucking Facebook posts as a source of medical information.
Correct, you would do your research. And if you did your research and came to the conclusion that a particular vaccine (not thinking of any in particular) was not safe for a child to take, would you be a good parent if you did it anyway just because a lot of other people are?
I hope that word is getting hazard and overtime pay with the entire weight of your argument resting on it.
If your research came to the conclusion that feeding your kid gave them too high of a risk of diabetes, should you legally be allowed to starve them to death?
I say "if", because a person can be pro vaccine, but have an issue with one in particular after researching it.
Sure. That if is still holding up your entire argument. Counter point, there are plenty of vaccines we don't administer because the risk of the vaccine doesn't outweigh the benefits. Off the top of my head, I can think of polio and smallpox vaccinces. There are large organizations doing actual research and crunching the numbers to find out, so we already do consider the efficacy before we just inject kids full of vaccines for no reason.
I imagine, if you went to court about not wanting your child to receive a certain medical treatment, and you showed up with 50 or so peer reviewed and supported journal articles showing the benefits of the treatments along with the risk and their rate of occurrence, then referenced current and predicted rates for the conditions they are medicating against and the severity of those conditions and summarizes with your own peer reviewed research that the particular treatment is no longer efficacious... Then you can make the claim that you did your own research.
If you show up with a fucking Facebook post and a Bible, then the state ought to take your kids away for their own safety.
I don't want to be injected with something unless I agree to it. That is not unreasonable. To forcibly inject people with drugs / vaccines against their will is assault.
Sure, but there is a difference between you making an uninformed and dangerous decision for yourself vs making an uninformed and dangerous decision for your child who is unable to decide for themselves. Especially considering we're taking about diseases and conditions that have a relatively high chance of chronic or terminal outcomes.