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Short of medical, there shouldn't be exemptions. Sorry if that offends anyone. No I take that back, I'm not sorry.
If you want to form your own polio colony, you can do that, but you stay there and don't come out.
The cat loaf has spoken.
Guess "my body, my choice" stops mattering to you once it's no longer politically useful, huh?
Abortions aren't contagious, but infectious diseases are, so you have a civic responsibility to protect yourself and therefore the greater whole.
You thought you had something there, huh.
It stops mattering once it starts...
Weird of you to have gone through their comment history and see what phrases they've used though.
You can choose to be diseased, but inflicting it on others denies them the choice.
Not at all. You can absolutely choose not to vaccinate. It just limits the places you're able to work, or send your kids to school.
The freedom to swing your arms, ends at someone else's nose. If you choose to set yourself up to spread a deadly infection, it makes sense for society to limit your chance of doing so.
You know why so many conservatives are rapists and plague rats?
Because in either case, they don't care about the consent of the other people involved.
You want to give yourself smallpox or polio? Fucking go for it, bud. Nobody here is gonna stop you. But what you don't have the right to is participate in activities where you could endanger other people.
So by all means, give yourself tuberculosis. Just stay the fuck away from civilized society when you do.
For the sake of clarity, is this just basic trolling, or are you breathtakingly stupid?
Well that's about the dumbest thing I've read since some republican talked.
Yes, because kids catching polio from some asshole who won't vaccinate or otherwise care for their own kids is their choice and what they want. Yup, totally apt comparison. /s
It is their body, ther choice to stay away from the rest of society.