Incorrect. I explained why. Both are preventative measures. They prevent you from getting sick. One cleans you to do it, one immunizes you to do it. YOu fear vaccines, irrationally, and want to prevent your kids from getting them, which can get them and others sick. Someone can fear bathing irrationally and not do it, thus getting sick and perhaps transmitting those germs to others. In both cases, it can get you very sick. They are only dissimilar on the surface, but not in the way I am comparing them. An analogy needn't use two identical objects.

Vaccines are safe, reasonably, and so is bathing. Both MIGHT hurt you...although it's incredibly rare and the positives outweigh the negatives.


According to me, yes, it is abuse. And my opinion's correct, just as it would be correct if I said refusing to bathe your children because of unfounded fears of it is a form of negligent abuse. You can't have your cake and eat it too. What is abuse is not merely my opinion. Reason dictates it. If you can make your kid sick (or kill him), or endanger him as such, by not vaccinating, why can't you also kill and endanger him so seriously other ways? Why this peculiar double think? I mean, it should therefore be legal in all similar ways if you are consistent.

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Right - which proves that the mind is able to do an incredible job of healing the body!

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

Placebos only have limited effect. They can't cure actual diseases. You won't cure aids with happy thoughts and thinking the medicine will.

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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when parents would intentionally expose their young children to other children that had measles or mumps so that they would get it over with and not have to deal with either of these as adults.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

No, this is not a case of neglect. It would be a case of neglect if the child wanted to eat but the parents wouldn't let him.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

"Society" doesn't but the local government does simply because it is an act of assault.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Some of my friends got chicken pox this way.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Really? So if your 10 year old is anorexic and you don't bother to get her treatment and she dies, that is not neglect?

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Yes, and they survived it, did they not?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

No, it isn't neglect. If the 10 year-old gets hungry enough she'll eat eventually.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."