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Forceful_Dragon posted...

But I also don't want them to be the only reason the virus is allowed to continue to circulate and mutate until the protections afforded by the vaccine become useless.

Right, that means you need more stringent pandemic measures than we do now. Whether that's locking down again or vaccine passports or even a vaccine mandate. But this "oh well it's their own fault" is some weak shit, no better than sacrificing grandma to the economy at the start of the pandemic.

And I'm talking purely at a policy level here. I'm not asking anyone to have empathy towards the antivaxxers or feel responsible for their health or anything. Just to recognize that people dying en masse is still fucking bad, and if people aren't taking precautions than societal structure should take that into account. Even in terms of utilitarianism it seems good for the government to have an interest in its citizens not fucking dying instead of, as xp points out, this pseudo-eugenicist libertarian bullshit.

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