Comment Re:Not the best summary... (Score 1) 195
Do you mean to say that you get infected by consent???
That used to be the case. Kids were sent to measles parties to catch the disease. Most would survive.
The inherent problem with vaccines is that they really are safe and effective. They save lives.
This is great for the individuals who gets saved, but it's very short-term thinking and harms the herd long-term.
Without vaccinations, childhood diseases kill more weaker individuals than stronger ones. The healthier you are, the greater are your overall chance of reaching reproductive age and reproducing. It's an evolutionary advantage to not have mutations that give you an increased risk of dying should you contract diseases.
With vaccinations, everybody gets the same chance, including those who would have been culled.
The herd becomes less healthy in the following generation, because there is no culling.
There may very well be a correlation between autism and vaccines, but that isn't the link the anti-vaxxers see. The link is that the parent generation had less culling due to vaccinations, which increases the risk of the child generation inheriting genes making them susceptible to a wider range of problems, including autism, allergies and other conditions that have become more commonplace.
We have pretty much stopped evolution by making the chance of surviving and having a chance to reproduce close to 100%. Not only for ourselves, but other species as well. Evolution has become an enemy, and is well on the way to becoming history.
The only ethical solution I can see that causes neither unnecessary suffering for future children, nor an unfair advantage for the rich tribes, is to let culling take place. The reproductive rate of humans is high enough to compensate for a fair amount of childhood deaths. A smaller ratio of children dying now may be preferable to a larger ratio of children suffering from problems in the future. Let a statistically significant number of children die. As long as we don't engage in eugenics by deciding who gets a better chance than others, evolution will tally the score.