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It is not my responsibility to protect others. If they want protection they can take the vaccine themselves.

At least in the United States, most children are currently unable to receive a vaccine so they cannot protect themselves.

Would you feel the same way if you were to come across a child drowning in a shallow pond and had an opportunity to save them with the only “cost” to you being the inconvenience of being cold and wet?

They may not see the vaccine as an issue of 'cold and wet' as you deem getting the vaccine to be, keep that in mind. As misguided as it may be. There is also a gairly big difference between jumping in a pool of water to save a drowning child (something likely universally familiar, and processable by anyone), and trusting a bunch of other humans you don't know from Adam, who have God knows what incentives guiding them, while possibly being a member of a population the United States has shown a willingness to be less than straightforward with when it comes to injecting things into.

Welcome to a low trust society.

Where collective action is nigh impossible by virtue of the near constant degree to which people can be found to have ulterior motives.

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