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CMV: Parents who opt out of vaccinating their children are guilty of child abuse

Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children because of an anti-vax agenda (assuming the child has no MEDICAL reason to not be vaccinated) are in my opinion guilty of child neglect/ borderline abuse. They are neglecting to protect their child from harm, and purposely putting their child in harms way (neglecting the child's safety entirely). 


Going along, children SHOULD NOT be allowed to attend public school without being properly vaccinated. Once again, assuming their is no medical reason (auto-immune disorders) to not be vaccinated. 


Parents who deny facts and put their children and others in harms way because of this political agenda is in my mind similar (but worse) than a parent that doesn't bring their child to the doctor when the child breaks its leg.


I honestly want to know the reasoning behind people who disagree with what I'm saying. And I UNDERSTAND completely that there are people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. If these are the only people who aren't vaccinated, herd immunity can effectively take place.
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They believe they are protecting their child from harm, they just happen to trust the wrong sources of information. They're clearly not intentionally harming their child. So you have to be a consequentialist about moral blame to call it abuse, which is fine but involves accepting much more difficult moral claims. Especially if we're okay with blaming people for failing to do good things even when they lacked the knowledge that it was the good thing to do.