On one hand - yes, absolutely, I agree. On the other hand, you remember the outbreak of the swine flu? And some countries wanted to force vaccinations on their citizens? Vaccinations that were later proven to not work at all, because they were prepared for the wrong virus, and some EU countries spent hundreds of millions of euros buying them? How about that - should the government have the power to force you to be vaccinated or not?

Yes, but people also die because someone miscalculates something in science. A totalitarian world will never be the answer to either problem.

Are you claiming that people never die because of bad law or bad science?

Your viewpoint is flawed and very anti-science.

your child has more chance of dying by going to the morning bus stop than their child does of dying from not being vaccinated. in fact, i'd bet your child has a better chance of dying by catching the flu from a vaccinated child than some other child not vaccinated by MMR.

i understand if someone doesn't want their child vaccinated and they can't go to public school, but forcing people is another thing, even if it is 'for their own good'.

This is only true in countries where almost every child is vaccinated. In the developing nations, where vaccinations are rare, it's the diseases which kill children, not the cars.

Do you want a gold star because someone on the internet, who said something you didn't agree with on a post, did not publish citations? you failed human.

We're getting an impressive variety here! After argument by conjecture fails, we move on to ad-homenim!