“Requiring inoculation against disease is definitely not a job for the government. If it is medically proven that a certain inoculation is desirable, those who want it will take it. ”
“Nobody has the right to force a person to do anything for his own good and against his own judgement. If someone has a contagious disease, however, against which there is no inoculation, then the government has the right to quarantine him. The principle here is to prevent diseased people from passing on their illness to others. Here there is demonstrable physical damage. In all issues government protection against physical damage, before the government can properly act, there must be an objective demonstration of actual physical danger. To quarantine people who are ill is not a violation of their rights, it merely prevents them from doing physicals damage to others.
