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Originally Posted by Libertine
Two roads. One leads to an extremely small risk of death, the other leads to a risk of death that is several thousands of times larger. Which road would you pick for your daughter?
When driving, would you have your daughter wear a seatbelt despite the risk that you drive into water, it gets stuck and she drowns? Or would you go with the much larger risk of death in a typical car crash while not wearing a seatbelt?
When choosing a babysitter, would you go with someone who has great references and a great reputation, or with a convicted child molester? After all, there is a small chance that the child molester has changed his ways, while the fully qualified babysitter with great references might turn out to actually be a child molester who just hasn't been caught yet.
If your daughter was dying from cervical cancer some decades from now and asked why you didn't get her the vaccination despite the risk being much, much smaller than the risk of cervical cancer it would have reduced, what would you answer?
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And what if your child is suffering from something just as bad if not worse because the vaccine that was given out like candy turned out 10 years later to be the cause of something even worse? Guilt is NOT a good reason to get children vaccinated. Wonder how the people who were cripped or had family die from Guillam Barre after their Swine Flu Vaccination felt. Did they feel guilty? It's never a black and white thing, but NOT having children vaccinated is a decision that ultimately falls to the parents, just as having vaccinations is. In either case, one must weigh the pros and cons and decide what they feel is best for their child.
Personally, I've always found that our bodies are miraculous things, and they will most oftentimes fix themselves.. The more crap we pour down our throats or have poked into our veins doesn't really win us any ground, because every time we "defeat" one illness, five more crop on it it's place. Superbugs are a good example of this... they were created by the very thing that was meant to help... .antibiotics... an OVERUSE of antibiotics, generally because parents who's kid have a little sniffle can't let mother nature run it's course, but demand their doctors fix things, and the doctors comply even when they know it's not neccessary so they feel they've done their jobs. In our "instant gratification" society, people place too much importance on the quick fix instead of allowing things to take their own course. Who suffers for this? EVERYONE, because now those superbugs are out there, and both the morons who don't know the difference between a bacteria and a virus (antibiotics are USELESS against viruses, but that's what most cold and flus are), and the people who chose differently are now exposed to these things. When my kids get sick, unless they are REALLY sick and can't get better on their own, I care for them through it, but I let them fight it off. Why? Because it's GOOD for their immune systems, it helps prevent MORE illnesses in the future, and my kids rarely if ever get sick for more than a day anymore, while half of their classmates are home every other week because they have no immune system and are flooded with antibiotics. It's a ridiculous, vicious circle I choose not to feed into.