N.J. bill to remove religion as reason to avoid vaccinating kids enrages parents at hearing | Doctor at hearing replied to them: "Your right to practice religion freely does not include...exposing the community or a child to a communicable disease"

Is it your right to tell someone what they should believe? Yes. Is it your right to force someone to believe something? No. While medical science is ideally guided by methodical checks and balances, all human inventions are subject to errors, so it stands to reason that these people have a rational concern when their freedom to decide what goes in their bodies is denied despite their decision stemming from some antiquated and seemingly unfounded belief in an Individual or group of divine beings. While I do believe vaccinations benefit the many, should we forsake the few? Should we violate someone’s belief system and way of life just because there is a possibility they could threaten someone else’s life? Who’s liberty is more important and should a nation that most are unwillingly born into be allowed to decide what people inject into their bodies? Fundamentally many of you will obviously answer yes, but why? Why is your faith in a government and human science more rational than the faith people have in the symbolic representations found in most religions? Hopefully, the methods and practices of our government and science are ethical and sound, but has either of those institutions in the US elicited much hope in the past decade?

Eh. Fart noises.

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