@article {Brennan37, author = {Jason Brennan}, title = {A libertarian case for mandatory vaccination}, volume = {44}, number = {1}, pages = {37--43}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1136/medethics-2016-103486}, publisher = {Institute of Medical Ethics}, abstract = {This paper argues that mandatory, government-enforced vaccination can be justified even within a libertarian political framework. If so, this implies that the case for mandatory vaccination is very strong indeed as it can be justified even within a framework that, at first glance, loads the philosophical dice against that conclusion. I argue that people who refuse vaccinations violate the {\textquoteleft}clean hands principle{\textquoteright}, a (in this case, enforceable) moral principle that prohibits people from participating in the collective imposition of unjust harm or risk of harm. In a libertarian framework, individuals may be forced to accept certain vaccines not because they have an enforceable duty to serve the common, and not because cost{\textendash}benefit analysis recommends it, but because anti-vaxxers are wrongfully imposing undue harm upon others.}, issn = {0306-6800}, URL = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/44/1/37}, eprint = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/44/1/37.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Medical Ethics} }