Healing the crack: pros & cons: is compulsory vaccination ethical?

A young philosopher and an experienced moral theologian exchange their views on compulsory vaccination – and both refer to Immanuel Kant.

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“Against compulsory vaccination”

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Alexander Hutterer from Koppl is currently writing his doctoral thesis on Kant’s concept of knowledge at the University of Cambridge.

Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. However, they also represent a medical intervention in the human body. This means that they fall within the very own sovereignty of the individual. An obligation to vaccinate is therefore morally unacceptable.

Compulsory vaccinations may seem justified – indeed necessary – especially since vaccinations “save lives”…

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  January 20, 2022
  

  4:01 a.m
  
  

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Accessed on January 20, 2022 at 4:12 a.m. at https://www.sn.at/panorama/oesterreich/den-riss-heilen-pro-kontra-ist-eine-impfpflicht-ethisch-vertretbar-115717279