The anti-vaxxers

The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has scolded Ramon Pellicer for giving a voice to anti-vaxxers on his program Vertex. It is the usual dilemma. Do you give a voice to someone who clearly has a harmful position (from the point of view of coherence)? Do you create a cordon sanitaire for those who demonstrate or are suspected of having anti-democratic or dangerous behaviors or thoughts, or who violate human rights?

Naturally, it depends on the context. It might be interesting to have a documentary about a serial killer where he explains, from prison, how he dismembered his victims, but it would seem morally reprehensible to have him sit on a television set. Anti-vaxxers are not serial killers (apparently). They have a mindset that can be unsympathetic to the population and harmful to the minors who depend on them. I vividly remember when Teresa Forcades campaigned against vaccines. At that time, some children who had not been vaccinated died. Then everything changed.

But if we don't interview anti-vaxxers, do we, instead, interview people who believe in God and flagellate themselves? Do we interview, as we did, that girl who wanted to commit suicide and ended up doing it despite the opposition, of course, of her father? Do we interview pimps and drug dealers? Do we interview flat-earthers, even if they don't hurt anyone?

I know anti-vaxxers with whom I agree, however, on many other things. The question I always have for anti-vaxxers is the following – so I am saying that I would like them to be asked this on television –: how is it that you do not vaccinate your children, but, on the other hand, invariably, you do vaccinate your cats and dogs?