Should the state be allowed to force little girls............

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Why does it matter if the disease is sexually transmitted?

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In a cost benefit analysis, if there's no benefit then there's only the cost.

Having said that, if parents are dumb enough to vaccinate their children for every little thing, then their children probably will be promiscuous.

I think the reality is that for most (dumb)people, this is a good thing.

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Well I think that a lot of people are making a big deal out of this being sexually transmitted. I think HPV is a pretty poor example because it's something that most people don't know about and is not going to impact people's sexual decsion making at all IMO.

As far as only dumb people being for this I'm not sure I agree. I do agree that obv it all has do with cost/benefit, but cervical cancer affects a lot of women, and while the chance goes up if you are more promiscuous, I think that if even ifyou have 2-3 partners in your lifetime (depending on how promiscuous they are) you are up there as far as relative risk goes.