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Assuming That Vaccines Do Cause Autism (They Don't) Should You Vaccinate Your Child.
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Suppose your child has a rare genetic disorder that makes 1 out of 500 victims develop mental problems.
There is an experimental cure available that prevents that from happening, but it can kill the child with 1 out of 5000 probability.
Should you purchase the cure?
From the probabilistic point of view, you absolutely should, because 1 out 5000 is much better odds, than 1 out of 500.
But from the parental point of view, it is more complicated. After all, the odds of the disorder leading to mental problems is very low to begin with. What if the child was not going to develop them, but will be very unlucky with the cure and die? Will the parent be able to handle the knowledge that they essentially killed their child unnecessarily for the rest of their life?
I do not know how I would act. My mathematical inclination tells me that I should go with what the probability theory says and purchase the cure. My human side, however, is confused.
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Same here. Assuming the vaccines can potentially hurt the healthy child, and knowing that avoiding vaccines can lead to other issues, which of the two risks will the parent prefer? I think the decision should be left to the child; it is his/her life, after all.
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If everyone gets autism, though, We will be unable to develop vaccines in the future.
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If we all got Autism wouldn’t we just evolve around it? I mean, thats how we work. Also, Autism and Down syndrome are two different things. Autism could just come in the form of someone being less social, or more focused on something that they love (Asperbegers).
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