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What is the libertarian stance on "the vaccines"?
A good summary of how libertarians think about the problem of the medicalization of the pandemic.
- Everyone who wants to take any medical therapy of their own will should be free to do so.
- Nobody should be coerced by the government to partake in any medical procedure.
That's it.
Civil and individual rights — freedom of association, the right to use one's own property, the right to travel and transact voluntarily — should never be contingent upon a medical procedure. To require a medical procedure, in order to exercise any right of yours, is extortion; to deny you your rights, in retaliation for rejecting the medical procedure, is coercion.
Extortion and coercion are evil. Libertarians reject evil as a matter of principle.
Not all forms of coercion involve directly pointing a gun. Extortion is a form of coercion. Governments are in fact systematically extorting their citizens into surrendering to medical treatments they didn't and don't want — and they severely punish those who defy their orders.
