If you want me to simplify this even more and give you a straight forward comparison--smoking in public places is becoming illegal in many, many, many cities. This has nothing to do with anyone caring if you kill yourself with cigarettes, but people have a right not to have to inhale your second smoke and become sick from your self-destructive decision. When your decisions start hurting other people this becomes more than just an argument for individual rights versus states rights.

Yeah this isnt a left or right, liberal or conservative thing. Everyone pretty universally, strongly agrees with vaccines. If you dont want your children to get them, fine, they're not allowed in the public school system. Also, if they end up contracting one of the aforementioned preventable diseases and becoming very ill, you've accepted the fact that you may be prosecuted for child endangerment. If your child infects another child who for actual medical or genetic reasons cant get vaccinated and that child becomes gravely ill or dies, theres a good chance you're going to get sued and a strong possibility a judge will rule for jail time or some pretty insane fines. You have your rights, that doesnt waive your responsibilities.

You're assuming nothing happened to the guy just because he's caucsion-looking? Easy to make assumptions from a photo I guess but your statement appears more hyperbolic than anything else. If someone did this in pretty much any country, regardless of skin color or perceived religion, they would be stopped and checked.

@mialinay it's a troll account, not sure how it hasn't been permanently banned yet. Check their historic comments, they're literally all either blatantly rude, racist, or antisemetic.

It's a scam bot bud, that's why.

Actually, all seriousness, they still use tampons in emergencies for GSW's.

I've said it once and I'll say it again. If you're someone who thinks autism is really that bad, let alone worse then the myriad of diseases vaccines prevent against, or in this case glowing freaking trees that have a carbon footprint of freaking 0... then you're a shitty human being.

Places like Chicago and Washington have the most strict gun control laws and statistically the most violent crimes in the nation per capita. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with said regulation, just saying @guest_ is correct that it's much more of a complex issue. I'm a lot more likely to be stabbed in the UK than I am in the US. I'm also much more likely to be killed with an IED or grenade in Sweden than anywhere else in the world that isnt an active war zone. Every country has its issues so... people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, you know?

I hear what you're saying @sunflowers but I grew up with a very different culture that celebrates scars, birth mark's, burns, etc... it just means you've lived and survived--people in Texas maybe think about things a little differently. I was also raised with the understanding that people arent just what they look like, but how they act towards others.

I mean, the vast majority of small businesses couldn't. I get what you're saying @unicycle but the average BBQ Parts & Accessory store down the street would bankrupt themselves if they did that.

3 types of people on the internet represented above.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted for stating a fact. I never said I agreed with it.

I meant no disrespect.

How did either of you get into my bed? And why are you both wearing clown costumes?!

This entire comment thread aged me 10 years.

No. There is little to no market that would make use of a person with a degree in gender studies. It's like a degree in art history...

Yeah I dont see how xvarnahs statement is bending towards a disbelief in climate change. Seems like they were just stating a fact.