The paranoid person is assured that he is at least worth persecuting: it lends him an importance of a kind that he would not otherwise have.
A couple in New Zealand have demanded that surgeons use only non-vaccinated blood to perform a life-saving heart operation on their baby.
Since the New Zealand blood transfusion service does not categorize blood into vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, and it would be futile even to try, this amounts to the parents refusing to allow the surgeons to operate.
Not surprisingly, the hospital has gone to court to have the parents replaced, at least temporarily, as legal guardians of the child.
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Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
This piece originally appeared in The New York Sun