If your child is not vaccinated, they should be barred from attending public school

[Fisherking]

These are the kind of non-arguments we can safely ignore.

The link between autism and vaccination is non-existent, and any parent who believes so deserves a slap in the face and a vaccine shot in their kids. It is precisely because of idiotic arguments like these that I support mandatory vaccination of children.

Children should not be forced to face certain danger because of their parents irrational fears over non-existent threats.

It is not that simple and it is not proven. When the top agencies say “there’s probably no relationship between autism and vaccines”. That does not rise to the level of proof. There are also many other side effects that are known.

The MMR vaccine has been mostly cleared but there is also an issue with the chemical thimeroal which is a form of mercury suspected of causing autism. It has been removed from most but not all vaccines.

Researched will not unequivocally say there is no link, and that is understandable. Scientific method proceeds by constantly modifying theories rather than accumulating “proofs”. But some in the public will not see it that way.

I thought the link to increased autism was likely to be increased age of parenthood, less children and more diagnosis.

Now that is a hypothesis and not a fact and if I was to make life or death decisions based on an untested idea then that would be wrong.

Not all ideas have equal merit. Nor do all ways of life have equal outcomes.

That is all essentially true. But the part I still don’t agree with is that you would lock these people up and take their children as wards of the state because they don’t see things in the same light as you.

To me that seems terribly draconian without exhausting all other alternatives.