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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8405139" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>I've heard a bunch of different metaphors and analogies for it, and I like this one, but I think the best one is comparing them to mandated seatbelts. </p><p></p><p>Seatbelts aren't foolproof. They won't save your life 100% of the time, but they save thousands of lives every year. Sometimes things can go wrong and they hurt or even kill people, but they're overwhelmingly a good thing. Seatbelts have been mandated for decades now, and almost all of us have gotten used to it and not claimed that it was some assault on your "freedoms". No one has a religious belief that allows them to not wear their seatbelt. And now that they've been mandated for longer than most of us have been alive, the majority of the people that die in car accidents are the ones that didn't just simply buckle up. </p><p></p><p>You may not know someone that died because they didn't wear their seatbelt, but you probably know someone that was saved because they wore won. I know that I was, back when my mother got in a car accident when she was pregnant with me. </p><p></p><p>Vaccines are like seatbelts. They're not foolproof. If you have severe allergic reactions, are immunosuppressed, or have other health conditions, the vaccine might actually harm you if you get it, just like seatbelts occasionally trap passengers inside vehicles. Mandating seatbelts and vaccines is nothing new, and isn't taking away your freedom, because your freedom only goes so far (it stops at the line of "taking away someone else's freedoms", which death is included in). They're both simple things that can protect you and those around you (wearing your own seatbelt won't protect others most of the time, but it can, especially if an accident would send you flying at other people). People that get vaccinated, just like people who wear seatbelts, are far less likely to die in an accident/from the virus than those that don't do the simple precaution. </p><p></p><p>If you're pro-seatbelt-mandates, through the same logic, you should also be pro-vaccine-mandates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8405139, member: 7023887"] I've heard a bunch of different metaphors and analogies for it, and I like this one, but I think the best one is comparing them to mandated seatbelts. Seatbelts aren't foolproof. They won't save your life 100% of the time, but they save thousands of lives every year. Sometimes things can go wrong and they hurt or even kill people, but they're overwhelmingly a good thing. Seatbelts have been mandated for decades now, and almost all of us have gotten used to it and not claimed that it was some assault on your "freedoms". No one has a religious belief that allows them to not wear their seatbelt. And now that they've been mandated for longer than most of us have been alive, the majority of the people that die in car accidents are the ones that didn't just simply buckle up. You may not know someone that died because they didn't wear their seatbelt, but you probably know someone that was saved because they wore won. I know that I was, back when my mother got in a car accident when she was pregnant with me. Vaccines are like seatbelts. They're not foolproof. If you have severe allergic reactions, are immunosuppressed, or have other health conditions, the vaccine might actually harm you if you get it, just like seatbelts occasionally trap passengers inside vehicles. Mandating seatbelts and vaccines is nothing new, and isn't taking away your freedom, because your freedom only goes so far (it stops at the line of "taking away someone else's freedoms", which death is included in). They're both simple things that can protect you and those around you (wearing your own seatbelt won't protect others most of the time, but it can, especially if an accident would send you flying at other people). People that get vaccinated, just like people who wear seatbelts, are far less likely to die in an accident/from the virus than those that don't do the simple precaution. If you're pro-seatbelt-mandates, through the same logic, you should also be pro-vaccine-mandates. [/QUOTE]
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