Would it be ethically justifiable to make the covid vaccine mandatory?
The Morality of Everyday Things: An Everyday Philosophy Podcast
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The difference between vaccines and lockdowns may seem to be that we enter this kind of realm of direct bodily intervention. It's considered acceptable to track them in a cage for indeterminate lengths of time, but deeply unacceptable to physically, chemically or psychologically alter them without their consent. Many would say that even if it was subject to free choice, giving pedophiles the option of being chemically castrated to avoid or reduce their prison sentence would be deeply unethical. So I can see how that may mean that mandating bodily interventions by vaccines may be unjustifiable.
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