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Orrex

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76. Yeah! And we should sterilize the parents and enjoin them from owning property!

Mon Feb 2, 2015, 12:31 PM

Feb 2015

Let's make the punishment fit the crime, dammit!

Perhaps my hyperbole will highlight the absurdity of your suggestion. I'm pretty sure that no court in the land currently identifies non-vaccination, in itself, as actionable child abuse, so your accusation is preposterous.

Ripping the children away from these misguided but, arguably, well-meaning parents will traumatize the children and burden an already over-strained foster care program.

Better to educate the parents. I'm not aware of any court-ordered vaccinations for children, but that might feasibly be an option if a particular case otherwise demonstrates a real threat to the children.

You will find no stronger pro-vaccination advocate here than me, but even I see your suggestion as ridiculous.

Unless it's a joke, in which case I say "well played."

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Too bad there are no laws against assholes becoming parents... [View all] Archae Feb 2015 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2015 #1

Libraries are closed on Sundays. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #2

Library Girl must have been scared by somebody in a white coat. Archae Feb 2015 #6

~~~ +1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2015 #7

In my nearly 40 year career... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #3

aw hell yes irisblue Feb 2015 #21

Have child services take the children away. No further contact allowed ever again. Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #4

No. YarnAddict Feb 2015 #13

Yes! Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #46

Child abuse is a serious accusation YarnAddict Feb 2015 #59

It is child abuse. Those parents are spectacularly stupid. Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #65

What is overwhelming YarnAddict Feb 2015 #67

Get the shot. Problem solved. No anguish. Less disease. All upside. No brainer. nt Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #68

Yeah! And we should sterilize the parents and enjoin them from owning property! Orrex Feb 2015 #76

Taking away the kids was hyperbole coming from my anger and contempt for stupid people. Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #80

Not all of them are assholes. Many are ignorant and/or disinformed Warpy Feb 2015 #5

They had me at chiropractor MattBaggins Feb 2015 #8

Dumb? leftofcool Feb 2015 #10

where do they go to school ? JI7 Feb 2015 #12

They have to attend medical school and there are many really good chiro schools leftofcool Feb 2015 #14

That is not true. likesmountains 52 Feb 2015 #16

????? etherealtruth Feb 2015 #17

Absolutely false. 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #22

Nope, mine is also an MD leftofcool Feb 2015 #93

Lol. An MD? You sure aren't helping that cause. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2015 #28

My Chiropractor is also an MD leftofcool Feb 2015 #92

So, your person ... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #94

You were scammed by one of the many scammers in the profession. NCTraveler Feb 2015 #50

Please provide a link supporting your statement that COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #51

I prefer knowledge that is more recent than 370 BC n/t arcane1 Feb 2015 #81

They can do good, but many massively overstate it. jeff47 Feb 2015 #20

Sometimes they are good for my neck or hip too mythology Feb 2015 #30

My chiropractor said she could help my neck get the red out Feb 2015 #54

A chiropractor Dorian Gray Feb 2015 #32

I think perhaps you misunderstood what he was offering, heh, heh, heh. nt tblue37 Feb 2015 #33

Ha Dorian Gray Feb 2015 #41

Um, well..... msanthrope Feb 2015 #40

Ha Dorian Gray Feb 2015 #43

Maybe you misunderstood the offer??? COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #52

A chiropractor told me the same thing Orrex Feb 2015 #82

if one of those kids onethatcares Feb 2015 #9

Round up the anti-vaxxers and put them in isolation. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #11

Really ??? DustyJoe Feb 2015 #23

Yes, REALLY! Anti-vaxxers are displaying the height of anti-social behavior by refusing vaccinations MohRokTah Feb 2015 #24

DU has a number of right wingers posing as Democrats. They are generally Third Wayers with GoneFishin Feb 2015 #57

No, actually.... Bobbie Jo Feb 2015 #75

I don't agree that both parties are the same, I do however believe all right winger corporatists GoneFishin Feb 2015 #83

Glad you were able Bobbie Jo Feb 2015 #85

Just following the money. GoneFishin Feb 2015 #88

I live in an area with migrant farm workers. xmas74 Feb 2015 #58

Give the illegals vaccinations. If they refuse (they won't), then deport. Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #70

I thought this was going to be a thread about George H.W. and Barbara Bush... hunter Feb 2015 #15

Yes, might have better if they'd remained childless! LeftishBrit Feb 2015 #19

Most of the anti-vaccine parents are not arseholes, but are conned by arseholes LeftishBrit Feb 2015 #18

I'm really glad that DU LWolf Feb 2015 #25

The difference is Arugula Latte Feb 2015 #26

Of course. LWolf Feb 2015 #34

Yeah. Funny how the interests of Mega-Pharma and vocal corporatists manage to scrape GoneFishin Feb 2015 #60

This is fucking bullshit alarimer Feb 2015 #77

I don't advocate for any stance, except not being an asshole. My assertion stands. GoneFishin Feb 2015 #84

Yes. LWolf Feb 2015 #100

When I was 1, my older sister got scarlet fever hollysmom Feb 2015 #27

I often think about those poor kids who became "crippled by polio" (as they used to say) Arugula Latte Feb 2015 #29

my ex as younger than me and spent a fe years in the iron lung. hollysmom Feb 2015 #31

Wow. Arugula Latte Feb 2015 #86

cause and effect hollysmom Feb 2015 #95

Had Scarlet Fever at 6. My Parents/Nana would have been charged with Child Abuse today HockeyMom Feb 2015 #38

You seemed to have it worse. I can't imagine my mother dealing with a sick child for 6 months. hollysmom Feb 2015 #42

There no vax for Scarlet Fever HockeyMom Feb 2015 #49

ah, I thought it was part of the package, so it was antibiotics? hollysmom Feb 2015 #71

The body dos not develop resistance... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #74

Excuse this asshole Senior for ever being born HockeyMom Feb 2015 #35

Let me know when you get polio. Archae Feb 2015 #36

I will contact you from the other side HockeyMom Feb 2015 #39

Except you aren't opting out just for yourself. jeff47 Feb 2015 #44

Still don't get it. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #45

You are a stupid person. I have utter contempt for you Lucky Luciano Feb 2015 #47

If you have had your vaccinations yourself, HockeyMom Feb 2015 #61

Herd immunity requires 83-92% Dr Hobbitstein Feb 2015 #69

They don't care about other people, clearly. alarimer Feb 2015 #79

No vaccination is 100% MohRokTah Feb 2015 #98

Do you not get that you can pass on diseases you may not suffer badly from? alarimer Feb 2015 #78

You can't work at a hospital, so yeah you don't have the right CreekDog Feb 2015 #91

Why would you refuse vaccinations on the basis of what's safe for your body? CreekDog Feb 2015 #96

"with autism or something." Iris Feb 2015 #37

I hope these parents seek out Jenny McCarthy for medical advice if they get sick. Vinca Feb 2015 #48

ouch! Phentex Feb 2015 #73

Not a parent of a young child HockeyMom Feb 2015 #97

"Hopyard, and his wife Ambergris, didn't vaccinate their son Aristotle, or their daughter Neptune." NBachers Feb 2015 #53

My old-school chiro is great for my back and neck xmas74 Feb 2015 #55

Bard College Student with Measles HockeyMom Feb 2015 #56

No real Democrat would propose such a thing. This is right wing batshit brown shirt crazy talk. GoneFishin Feb 2015 #62

Of course I agree that is insanity HockeyMom Feb 2015 #64

I totally agree on the need for doing their own research. I don't advocate for anything other GoneFishin Feb 2015 #66

Yes, it does have a right wing ring to it Oilwellian Feb 2015 #99

"They had me at chiropractor." Orrex Feb 2015 #63

We might have been spared three Bush presidential terms. n/t Orsino Feb 2015 #72

They sound so fucking shallow. Jamastiene Feb 2015 #87

And those asshole parents who insist on keeping guns in the house Crunchy Frog Feb 2015 #89

Yes the light is gone from my eyes, the shot did that...yep yep... Rex Feb 2015 #90