For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
This isn’t a failure with the law not being allowed to overstep and forcibly remove medical freedoms from its citizens. This is a failure of the state’s (potentially country’s) adult education system, that allows the adults to become so uneducated on the subject, that their ignorance has harmed and killed children. This is a failure on the society that built such a system, and allowed it to continue into modern times. This is not a failure of lacking government overreach, but a failure in society as a whole.
This isn’t a failure with the law not being allowed to overstep and forcibly remove medical freedoms from its citizens. This is a failure of the state’s (potentially country’s) adult education system, that allows the adults to become so uneducated on the subject, that their ignorance has harmed and killed children. This is a failure on the society that built such a system, and allowed it to continue into modern times. This is not a failure of lacking government overreach, but a failure in society as a whole.