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Isn't that rather the point? When you are a child, adults make decisions for you in your best interest; but when you become an adult, you make your own decisions. This joyful welcome for the infantilisation of an entire population, I find it very disturbing.

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There's nothing "infantilizing" about doing your civic duty.

Are you deliberately or accidentally missing the point of the comment you're responding to?

There are two points in the comment. I went with the easier one to respond to, because I don't feel like the parent is entitled to asymmetric labor in the form of a detailed rebuttal. The Internet really is an incredible place.

I didn’t sign anything.

You can bet Hobbes is spinning in his grave for using that word!

Neither did anyone in society sign anything to put up with you. You're free to live away from society and you're unlikely to be bothered by anyone. Imagine a convict making that argument to a judge 'I didn't sign anything that says I won't murder anyone'.

Rousseau would agree but then again it's irrelevant.

You're very free to not get vaccinated and endure the consequences, just as you were free to not get vaccinated as a child and be home schooled.

I'm fully vaccinated thank you, believing as I do that vaccines are a wonder, a victory of human ingenuity over disease. It saddens me that so many people of a similar view also have the nasty authoritarian streak so often evident in these discussions.

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