2025

It boggles my mind that we are even debating whether or not we should use the polio vaccine which has saved literally millions of lives. No matter what anecdotal “evidence” about what somebody says happened to someone somewhere sometime, vaccines have proved over and over to be the best way to protect ourselves and our children.

Perhaps it is time to go back to some of the original thinkers on how we humans come to social decisions. When the dogma of original sin waned, philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau started to contemplate different ideas about what the nature of hum...