>That's another echo of the old idea that morality and civilization are impossible without religion, and that the alternative is savagery.
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>Some people have the same view of vaccination- they suffer no ill-effects by declining because they are passively protected by others' decision to vaccinate. As this sort of thinking becomes more common, the risk of epidemics we have not seen for decades also becomes more common.

Nice parallel - except I don't quite get what's the disease and what's the vaccine, and who are those who are passively protected.