You're right -- but every single study has shown that teaching sex ed properly (covering safe sex, how STDs actually transmit rather than fear mongering) is the most reliable way of reducing STDs, unwanted pregnancy, abortions (largely due to the reduction in unwanted pregnancy), sex abuse, ...

The policy of "teach abstinence" fails people much more so than vaccinating against a single vector.

I think this is a key point. To say "X has failed" when the truth is "X was done wrong / badly and it failed."

While a vaccine might not be a license to _____, it also fails to address education, personal responsibility, etc. Sure there are health benefits but if everyone gets a trophy so to speak when and how will the lack of learning Y manifest itself later?

That is, give the vaccine. Sure. But don't be so naive to think that education in some form isn't still necessary.

Furthermore, Mother Nature is clever and crafty. It's only a matter of time, now that protection is less necessary, before she comes up with something new.

I'm not a Luddite. But there are two sides to every advance, and we almost always igrore the unintended consequences until it's too late.