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There is something a little strange about mandating that all children be vaccinated against an STD. If the HPV shot were available right now, I certainly wouldn't take it because I am not at risk for contracting that illness. I totally understand why parents don't want to have their children effectively forced to receive this vaccination.
Let me take it a step further: if a vaccine preventing the transmission of HIV came out tomorrow, I wouldn't get the shot.
Now let's not use the religious beliefs of some who oppose mandatory HPV vaccination as evidence that there is not credible argument against the mandate.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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