{"id":1996531,"date":"2023-08-10T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-one-gets-to-make-that-choice-sam-harris-argues-against-blanket-condemnation-of-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:55:58","slug":"no-one-gets-to-make-that-choice-sam-harris-argues-against-blanket-condemnation-of-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-one-gets-to-make-that-choice-sam-harris-argues-against-blanket-condemnation-of-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris opposes blanket condemnation of vaccines, emphasizing that no one should have the authority to make that decision."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-one-gets-to-make-that-choice-sam-harris-argues-against-blanket-condemnation-of-vaccines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sam Harris on the\u2062 Importance of Vaccines<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">recent interview<\/a> on &#8220;Impact\u200c Theory&#8221; with host Tom Bilyeu, renowned \u200batheist Sam\u200d Harris discussed the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-sen-rick-scott-accountability-should-be-basic-function-of-govt-but-dems-and-biden-failing-to-do-so\/\" title=\"Fla. Sen. Rick Scott: Accountability should be basic function of govt, but Dems and Biden failing to do so\">potential dangers<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-pelosi-rants-root-causes-of-jan-6-were-white-supremacy-anti-semitism-islamophobia\/\" title=\"WATCH: Pelosi Rants \u2018Root Causes\u2019 Of Jan. 6 Were White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia\">blanket condemnation<\/a>\u2063 of vaccines. Harris, who \u2062has been critical of Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s stance on vaccines,\u2064 emphasized \u2063the need \u200dfor a pragmatic\u200c approach when\u200d considering the ethical and political implications of vaccination.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My view\u2064 is\u200d it\u200d is a \u200bcoin toss as\u200c to what you do there,&#8221; Harris argued. &#8220;Now, if you\u200c raise the stakes, more,\u200c right,\u200b you\u2064 make Trump even\u200b more sinister, you make\u2063 the election even more\u200c tenuous, you make the information even more dubious, then the dials change. And so many of these decisions are not decisions you can make categorically in\u2064 principle; it really is this \u200dpragmatic balancing of just what is true and what are\u200c the \u200bstakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris then\u200d posed\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barr-calls-trump-a-narcissist-who-shouldnt-use-nation-as-a-therapy-session\/\" title=\"Barr labels Trump a 'narcissist,' warns against using nation as 'therapy session.'\">thought-provoking question<\/a>\u2063 to Bilyeu, asking \u2062if he believed it was wrong to mandate the mRNA vaccine for COVID. \u200dHe acknowledged that in\u2063 hindsight, it may seem true, \u200bbut stressed that altering\u2062 certain variables could significantly impact one&#8217;s ethical\u2062 and political \u200cintuitions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You make it a much \u2063more obviously effective\u200d vaccine that really does block transmission, so like a sterilizing vaccine,&#8221; Harris theorized. &#8220;You make it a much more dangerous\u200d virus. You make it a\u2064 virus that\u2019s actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-one-gets-to-make-that-choice-sam-harris-argues-against-blanket-condemnation-of-vaccines\/\" title=\"Sam Harris opposes blanket condemnation of vaccines, emphasizing that no one should have the authority to make that decision.\">preferentially\u2063 killing kids<\/a>, rather than old people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He continued to \u2062explore \u200cthe \u200dimplications of personal \u2064choice in the context of \u200da deadlier pathogen,\u200b highlighting the potential risks it poses\u200c to others, especially\u200d children. Harris argued that in such a scenario, the choice \u200bto not get vaccinated would no\u200c longer be \u200ctolerated, as it \u200dwould directly endanger the\u200c lives of others.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Then you just have to be completely crazy to be worried about being vaccinated in \u2063that kind of \u200denvironment,&#8221; he asserted. &#8220;Then it\u2019s just a no-brainer. \u200dThen we just\u2062 don\u2019t tolerate diversity of opinion because the stakes are too high.\u200b It\u2019s a\u2063 full-on emergency. Bodies of kids are\u200b being stacked up\u2062 in parks. There\u2019s so many of them we \u2062don\u2019t know what \u2064to do with them; we\u2019ve got these mobile morgues\u200b and we have a vaccine that \u200dactually \u200dworks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris\u2062 expressed his concerns about the potential consequences of vaccine \u200cskepticism, \u2063referencing RFK Jr.&#8217;s remarks on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast.\u200d He emphasized that in a world \u2062where children were dying in large numbers from COVID, \u2063there would\u200d be no \u2064room for patience when\u200c it comes to questioning \u2062the efficacy of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>For\u200c the full interview, you can watch it \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yVnc4YZc9hQ&#038;t=5900s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Harris, the renowned atheist, cautioned against blanket condemnation of vaccines, emphasizing the potential dangers. During an interview on &#8220;Impact Theory&#8221; with Tom Bilyeu, Harris addressed Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s vaccine crusade and stressed the importance of considering the risks. He also mentioned the attempts to suppress news regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1996532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}