Do You Think Childhood Vaccinations Should Be Compulsory?

[Yeddi]

Kelly asked for the YES voters to comment, but to be honest, it feels like there is absolutely no point in saying anything positive about vaccination in these threads. People who don't vaccinate are not going to be swayed by us who follow conventional medicine because it doesn't fit with what they believe, and those who do vaccinate feel victimised and made to feel stupid with all these "facts" that get written up without any references. People who are on the fence are going to be swayed but more likely by the non-vaccers because they tend to shout the loudest and come from influential members of the BB community, starting at the top with BB herself. I think there is a lot of scare-mongering about vaccination (admittedly, this comes from both sides) and none of us are really qualified to make the assertions that we do.

Over & out.

That's not completely true. I don't judge people for vaccinating their kids - it's their choice, and I said that, and I will not judge them for their decision - but it needs to go both ways. Saying something has to be compulsory is judging, isn't it? It's not a reciprocal respect. It's saying that because I believe this, YOU have to too, if you don't you are doing the wrong thing - of course that's going to get people's backs up, of course they are going to start to defend their rights and present the reasons behind their decision. The non-vaccers are not attacking, they're defending their rights of choice. This isn't a "Do you think it should be compulsory to NOT vaccinate", you're not having your choices challenged and judged - we (the non-vaccers) are.

The "compulsory for adults" argument is just as bad. No one has the right to take away another person's autonomy like that!