Ok, first, the debate about whether viruses are alive or not: I really don't think it matters. I mean, it's just a debate one the definition of "life". It really doesn't matter.Anyway, I just finished reading a book called "This Perfect Day," by Ira Levin. Anyone heard of it? Anyway, it's from the 1970s. But anyway, it was about the future where you get these treatments (This has a point about vaccinations, so just bear with me). A super computer, called UniComp pretty much controls everyone's life. You can only go certain places if the computer approves. The computer decides whether or not you can have kids or not. It decides what job you'll get. It decides that you get 1 hour of TV each day, and only at a certain time. So, anyway, these "treatments" are also given out every month. Everyone gets them. the treatment does a number of things. It makes you unselfish, unaggressive, etc. It makes you "perfect". It's a world where everyone is the same except their names (and there are only 4 names to choose from). The computer even chooses when you die (EVERYONE dies at 62). The most foul, dirty thing that you can say is "fight UniComp". The treatments make it so that you never question the super computer. "Uni knows all" is what they say. There used to be a time when taking these treaments was voluntary (and they didn't do exactly the same thing as they did later), but were then required. They had no freedom, and they had no way of knowing that because the treatments made them think the opposite. They were forced to take the treatment, and had no freedom to choose not to take it. At one point someone was arguing that they were free: "Of course we're free. We're free of war and want and hunger, free of crime, violence, aggressiveness, sel-""Yes, yes, we're free of things," Chip said, "but we're not free to do things ... Being 'fre of' really has nothing to do with being free at all"Anyway, the point is, though I definitely agree that vaccinations are alot better than taking these "treatments" I read about, to force one to take something is to take away their freedom. People should have the right to refuse a vaccination. They may be an idiot for refusing to take the vaccination, but it's their own idiotic choice, and to force it to them would to take away their freedom.Now, whether a parent has the right to decide whether a child should take a vaccination or not, I don't know.