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      10 months ago

      With that attitude, we’d still be dealing with smallpox.

      There are definitely cases where it should be mandatory.

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          10 months ago

          No vaccine is 100% effective. Letting people decide to be infected means that they infect others, and kill them.

          Getting everybody vaccinated meant that the disease became extinct, so nobody dies from it anymore.

          Mandatory treatment when not getting treated can kill other people is perfectly acceptable.

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              10 months ago

              Why kill when there are less damaging options available?

              No thanks.

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                  10 months ago

                  Your bodily autonomy ends when it starts harming other people. You don’t get to deny it to others through your decision to spread disease or leave a violence-inducing case of mental illness untreated.