I have no critique of your argument. I think it is well stated. I even agree with it. As a mental health professional, who operates personally, and professionally due to organizational preference, in a person centered philosophic interaction modality, I will happily engage in a debate about the efficacy of vaccines- but I can't tell a person what to do. I promote the vaccines. I took the vaccines. I will do my best to educate, inform, correct misunderstanding- how getting the vaccine doesn't just help individual, it help society- seriously, right now- the number of people in the medical community, and education, facing burnout hasn't really been calculated or appreciated to the degree it's unfolding. We are on the cliff of potential mass exodus of professionals from necessary fields.

But then, the arguments and debates cease when human says, "I don't want it." I don't know how to move around that, from a person centered philosophy. Good counselors don't advise or recommend, we simply facilitate the process of change. I don't know how to address "I don't want it" in a democratic society. I don't know how to remove stupidity from the dialogue without that appearing as I am suppressing opposition, right or wrong.

You are absolutely right. There are some stupid ass doctors. Stupidity is at all levels of society, and it amazes me how many people rise to authority, contrasted by thousands of people who are wiser not rising to authority. While stupidity plays a part of the dialectic of vaccinations, so does religious and political beliefs. The fact that some people may have participated in the creation of this thing, and or benefitted financially from this things, is a grievance that may need to be sorted, but probably later- not during the crisis itself. Ignorance plays a part- and I submit ignorance is not stupid. Ignorance can be educated, stupid is what stupid does.

Even though many humans are legally adults by virtue of having existed on the planet a number of years, not everyone is intellectually or emotionally mature. Even if maturity was consistent in all domains, people still come up with different answer sets. There are ways to encourage people to participate at a higher compliance rate than what we got, but I suspect the greater level of force, perceived or actual, will likely result in increased resistance.

How do we silence stupid, educate ignorance, encourage more participation, and allow for the fact that some adults will not budge because part of the bill of goods sold to most humans is that when I am an adult, I get to do what I want. It's not a hundred percent true, but it's the bill of goods we think we own. This dilemma is influenced by an underlying, subjective evidence that governments and corporations don't always have our back. You and I both know there is evidence for that, and I might use that as an argument here, but you might also agree- making that arguments makes me look fringe, a conspiracy theorist, as opposed to recognizing this problem may be hinting at societal problems that have gone too long in being addressed.

I wish I had an answer- but if you allow me to quote Sir Patrick Stewart, "There can be no justice as long as laws are absolute." Being human is tough.