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Moral Issues

Forced Vaccination

Naina Krishnamurthy asks if it’s ethical or egregious.

Imagine it is 2021, during the Pandemic. Let’s suppose your neighbor is an elderly lady who makes great cookies, and she’s akin to a grandmother to you. One day her family alerts you that unfortunately she’s in the hospital with COVID , on life support, and her doctors think she likely caught it from an unvaccinated carrier. Guiltily, you remember visiting her last week for some of her cookies. You didn’t realize your wish to protect your bodily rights to go unvaccinated could risk her life.

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