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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (86170)8/23/2000 1:06:40 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
You CAN regulate risk. All of life is regulating and balancing RISKS. Every choice you make is essentially a risk balancing operation.

If I have my child immunized, I run a slight risk of complications - some very serious. BUT on the other hand, I avoid the risk of them catching a serious childhood illness AND I protect society as well, for I am also covering for parents who do NOT get their children immunized. SO for me, I think the balance tips toward immunization- that is how I wish to regulate my children's risk For other parents the balance tips toward NOT immunizing (but of course part of their calculation is based on ME immunizing my kids to make the world safer for them not to do so).

Now we come to different conclusions but both "sets" of parents are balancing the risks. I know of NO set of parents who wish to "embrace the risk" of childhood disease and use THAT as their rationale for not immunizing. Literally countless other examples spring to mind, but that ought to do.
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