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botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Dead Reckoning posted:

I mean, I guess there's nothing stopping you from arguing on the basis that the proper purpose of law is to follow whatever justification you choose to gussy up your emotional reaction to the issue du jour, but most people who do that at least make the token effort of an appeal to divine will or something. It does explain a lot about your posting though.

This is some serious first year philosophy student poo poo. Not everything has to be justified by first principles, and this is not how laws are written. Mandatory vaccinations are good because they have very little real downsides but potentially huge upsides. This is a fact of biology that is not in need of derivation from moral axioms. The question of how we would treat tangentially related but different ethical questions does not need to be answered before we can legislate on vaccines.

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