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The idea of using natural consequences as a deterent to "immoral" behavior goes back millenia and is unlikely to change anytime soon. But it is important to realize that it is usually unsafe behavior causing a moral rule to develop, not the other way around.
For example, eating pork in the ancient world was hazardous to your health, hence the Jewish and Islamic moral rules against it. Likewise dozens of other moral prohibitions, including the ones against sex outside of marriage.
But now, the moral rule is taking over, excluding any reason for it's existance, including the spread of disease.
IMO, these people are acting sinfully to want to deny a vaccine that could prevent disease in order to further their own moral agenda.
I would say that I am ashamed that they call themselves Christian, but I know that the religion they practice is not at the heart of their problem.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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