Who has more rights ?
Strong or weak I don't think it is in anyone's interest to have a large percentage of the population die due to rampant disease.
So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water.
Unfortunately comments like this convey misinformation and could help to spread anti-vax positions.
There's very little research to suggest that ingestion of fluoride has any positive health impact. Comparing the two issues is quite misleading.
Because in america we believe in an individual's personal right and a limited government. A government free to take your children away when there is no immediate danger would certainly violate this.
If people understood herd immunity, understood that the underpinnings of the anti-vax movement are based on debunked fraudulent science, etc, this "anti-vax" situation would've never come into being.
The West has had plenty of its own tainted vaccine issues but it’s not in any shape or form an excuse to not vaccinate just an excuse to have better standards which we already have.
Even with all the possible problems, side effects and complications vaccination saves millions of people each year.
Vaccination isn’t just about you if you don’t vaccinate your child you not only put them at risk but more importantly you those who cannot be vaccinated at even more risk as they would have a compromised immune system to begin with.
The sad truth is that not-vaccinating your child would likely won’t kill them due to modern medicine, however it can kill those who cannot be vaccinated which is why the moral imperative is for society to mandate vaccination because if we have one rule for a just society regardless of what system we use is that the strong should protect the weak.