Uh, I wouldn't have taken you for an anti-Vaxxer.
There are good reasons to require mandatory vaccines, such as MMR, etc. So yes, I would agree with a requirement for Texas children to be vaccinated for DPT and for MMR.
This is for adults, who already have the smallpox vaccine. So everything is fine with them. Forget the vaccines, let's change the example and say I wanted to restrict Texans from traveling to other parts of the country or something equally inconvenient or silly.
The point is that when the status quo is fine, and you create some stupid inconvenience or punishment to try to rescue us from an imagined threat to the status quo, opposition to that inconvenience/punishment by arguing that the status quo is fine is not in any way equivalent to forcing the threat on people, because the threat is imagined.
Again, why are you trying to cram it down North Carolina's throats. If it's an issue of no importance, then there's no reason to attack North Carolina. Instead we see just the opposite.
Obviously you believe it to be an important issue. Why?
Your side is the side trying to make the change. Clearly it is of some importance to you because your side is trying to jam through legislation to change it at great economic and social expense.
To me, it is of no importance. What is important to me is that it should stay unimportant -- I don't want these fools to make it an important issue by creating all these silly laws. This is something that everyone was completely fine with, and now you're trying to pull a problem out of thin air to start another culture war. All I'm saying is, don't start a culture war.
Anyway, this conversation is pointless because you're clearly arguing in bad faith, and I would ask the mods to move all the posts related to it to a separate thread so we can get back to making fun of Ted Cruz for his silly strategy.