Originally Posted by
fadec
No. The type of argument isn't dependant on how someone feels about it.
Sort of, but we’re not talking about immigration and some yells out you’re a pedophile. If a person is skeptical of the honesty/competency of those involved in making vaccines and therefore choose not get vaccinated... are they not an anti-vaxxer?
Originally Posted by
fadec
Polio and MMR vaccines were never mandatory. People received them anyway. Personal choice works. Why do you accept personal choice in Polio and MMR vaccines but want to mandate COVID vaccines?
Firstly, those vaccines are mandatory to go to kindergarten in many, if not most places. Secondly, Just because I don’t think the skepticism is warranted, doesn’t indicate a stance on mandatory vaccination. However, in order to have a conversation about whether or not to do something, I think both sides need to at least understand the valid ideological backgrounds behind each side.
between the party of sanctimony and the party of strategic skepticism, I doubt an intelligent conversation will be had. But I still try