Re:Easy fix (Score 3, Insightful)

These people have been manipulated to such a degree that they are incapable of forming rational judgements. Hatred and ridicule are the easy responses, but I feel like we have an obligation to keep fighting no matter how fixed their fears and ignorance are. Regardless of their faults, they still deserve to be treated as human beings. "Letting Darwin sort things out" is not an ethical option.

Posting Anon because I don't trust that this comment won't come back to haunt me eventually...

I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch. I've got all my required vaccines, and if I have children one day, they will get vaccinated per the CDC schedule. This one is different. A vaccine for a virus we didn't even know existed a year ago, with every possible pressure to be first to release, and no long-term testing or studies? I don't think it's unreasonable to want to follow Windows Version Logic and wait until the first service pack on this one. I don't believe there's a chip, I don't believe Bill Gates is doing something insidious (culling the human population would require him to literally do nothing and let Covid do his dirty work for him if that were his goal), but it doesn't require going to that sort of extreme to have a desire to avoid the first draft of this particular vaccine.

What's got me concerned is more the possibility of mandatory vaccination. I might disagree with antivaxxers and be incredibly angry with Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy for starting this movement against well-understood, well-tested vaccinations, but at the end of the day I must concede that no government body should be allowed to dictate what does and doesn't get injected into somebody's body. If we don't have enough liberty to decide what happens with our own body, then we can't have a useful discussion about liberty at all.