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> Anti-vaxxers think that vaccines are harmful (or useless).

Vaccines are harmful; it's just that the positive effects vastly shadow the negative effects in the general case.



You are technically correct (everything is harmful, and vaccine application is probably associated with some amount of micromorts — but so is, say, getting up from the bed). However, vaccines are very safe (safer than many everyday activities), and negate much more micromorts. Thus, I believe that your technically correct appeal doesn't contribute anything useful to this particular discussion.




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