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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is it not criminally negligent to not vaccinate your children? Especially since they have been proven to reduce if not eradicate disease?
gpt
As bad as it is, legally you cannot force someone to have an injection when their life is not in danger, just as you cannot force their parents to make them have the injections when the child is too young to consent, or the parents have the decision to make. If the kid was dying, then you could go a court and get them to sign off as taking the medical decisions of the child away from the parents, however that is when active medical treatment is needed, vaccines are passive, and that's the key difference.

I wish it was something that we could force everyone to do (it kinda is now in that you cannot have your kid in public school if they are not vaccinated), but it sets a dangerous precedent to allow any government to be able to force inject something into a child.