Assignment 4
I believe that state mandated administration of childhood vaccinations is justified for the following reasons; First and foremost, mandating vaccinations in children provides the opportunity to eliminate certain illnesses. Second, mandating vaccinations lowers the risk in the illness spreading and multiplying. And third, vaccinations could be used to collect money which could then be used for things like research towards developing new, more effective vaccinations.
So first off, if we mandate vaccination in children we present the opportunity to eliminate life threatening illnesses. For example, the global eradication of polio is a public health effort to eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio)