I know many pro-choice people who are against mandating the vaccine, and a lot of pro-life people who are vaccinated. I don't like abortion as a parallel on this because it's really not the same thing (pro-choice believe that a woman has the right to decide what/who grows in her body, pro-life believes that the unborn child has a separat…
I know many pro-choice people who are against mandating the vaccine, and a lot of pro-life people who are vaccinated. I don't like abortion as a parallel on this because it's really not the same thing (pro-choice believe that a woman has the right to decide what/who grows in her body, pro-life believes that the unborn child has a separate right to live.) However, putting aside whether the fetus has a separate right to live, every thinking individual has a right to decide what medical treatments to take or not take. We don't force cancer patients to have chemo, for example. We don't force obese people to go to the gym or smokers to quit smoking. We can encourage healthy behaviors, but we don't force them. I hear a lot of people talking about how the unvaccinated should not be given medical services. That disturbs me on multiple levels. Should we never treat a smoker because they know nicotine is bad and causes cancer? Should drug addicts be denied medical care because they chose to smoke crack or inject heroin? I had one friend post on FB that vaccinated people who get COVID should be treated over unvaccinated people who get COVID. smh.
"I know many pro-choice people who are against mandating the vaccine, and a lot of pro-life people who are vaccinated"
Me too, that's why i said some, and left political affiliations out of it.
To follow up on your abortion reasoning, still not a perfect analogy, but i would counter that some vaxx mandaters believe anti-vaxxers still feel free to infect and possibly kill other people. So whether you're pro-choice or anti-vaxx, according to their counterpoints, it's still not just your own life you're putting at risk.
"That disturbs me on multiple levels."
Yeah, me too, and not just because i'm a smoker. It's a really slippery slope, where apparently some self-appointed body decides to get to decide who deserves treatment. Start with the unvaxxed and smokers put at the bottom of the pile. What next - fat people back of the queue, drunk people having accidents, and so on?
I know many pro-choice people who are against mandating the vaccine, and a lot of pro-life people who are vaccinated. I don't like abortion as a parallel on this because it's really not the same thing (pro-choice believe that a woman has the right to decide what/who grows in her body, pro-life believes that the unborn child has a separate right to live.) However, putting aside whether the fetus has a separate right to live, every thinking individual has a right to decide what medical treatments to take or not take. We don't force cancer patients to have chemo, for example. We don't force obese people to go to the gym or smokers to quit smoking. We can encourage healthy behaviors, but we don't force them. I hear a lot of people talking about how the unvaccinated should not be given medical services. That disturbs me on multiple levels. Should we never treat a smoker because they know nicotine is bad and causes cancer? Should drug addicts be denied medical care because they chose to smoke crack or inject heroin? I had one friend post on FB that vaccinated people who get COVID should be treated over unvaccinated people who get COVID. smh.
"I know many pro-choice people who are against mandating the vaccine, and a lot of pro-life people who are vaccinated"
Me too, that's why i said some, and left political affiliations out of it.
To follow up on your abortion reasoning, still not a perfect analogy, but i would counter that some vaxx mandaters believe anti-vaxxers still feel free to infect and possibly kill other people. So whether you're pro-choice or anti-vaxx, according to their counterpoints, it's still not just your own life you're putting at risk.
"That disturbs me on multiple levels."
Yeah, me too, and not just because i'm a smoker. It's a really slippery slope, where apparently some self-appointed body decides to get to decide who deserves treatment. Start with the unvaxxed and smokers put at the bottom of the pile. What next - fat people back of the queue, drunk people having accidents, and so on?
I've privately noted that the argument against mandating vaccines sounds suspiciously like the argument for allowing abortion. Up until this point.