That is by no means to say that all mandatory vaccinations are defensible. As I have argued, the Covid shot should never have been mandatory. But it goes way too far to claim, as Ladapo does, that all mandatory vaccination as such is “immoral” and amounts to “slavery.” The truth lies in the middle ground position that while there is a moral presumption against a mandate, in some cases that presumption can be overridden and it can be licit for governments to require vaccination. Sweeping statements of either extreme kind are wrong, and we need to go case by case.
