Although I wholeheartedly believe in vaccines, I also think that the state has no business in my body. This inevitably leads into a controversial discussion of whether protecting an individual from disease outweighs the power of personal choice. Even if vaccines were to be mandatory and given automatically when people go to hospitals, then anti-vaxxers will simply stop visiting hospitals which would be more damaging to their health than not being vaccinated. Furthermore, those who refuse to be vaccinated will still be vulnerable to viruses. However, they will be unable to spread them to people who had the vaccine and I would expect that the sole danger culminated by these unvaccinated individuals will be to themselves. Therefore, I do not agree that vaccines should be mandatory.

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