Re:Vaccines and our return to office plans
by throwawayboise on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:51PM
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It cannot be justified simply because "it is cheaper" for the government. It would be cheaper for the government to simply euthanize the mentally disabled rather than give them lifelong support and care that they can never repay, but we reject that as immoral.
Historically, we've seen that making arguments like this on the basis of costs, numbers, and science leads to eugenics.
It must be a moral argument, which has gotten harder to make in modern times as commonly-recognized sources of moral truth (religion, mostly) have been on the wane for some time.
My belief is completely the opposite: Vaccination should NOT be a personal preference: A vaccinated population is a social good. People NOT being vaccinated (against polio, mumps, covid or even influenza) puts the population at risk. If providing the vaccine is cheaper for the government than the having certain amount of population sick, then vaccination should be enforced.
But then again, I live in a country that has a more socialist approach to governance, and I also was educated more towards this ideology.