I think that to blindly accept is to go down the path of naivety. That doesn't mean that things need to be seen in black and white in terms of either being pro/anti vacs, there are IMO a lot of shades of grey in the middle of those two arguments.
For a number of illnesses, vaccination is absolutely the way forward in terms of protecting against them. However, for a number of others the advent of vaccinations have led to a conditioning of people into believing that previously mild illnesses are suddenly deadly killers and that only vaccination will guard against almost certain death. I'm referring to the chicken pox vaccine here. Chicken pox is not a deadly disease on a par with small pox/measles etc. Yes of course any illness will have its tragic outcomes for a tiny minority of people, but for the most part chicken pox is a mild illness which is better caught when young. And the one thing which people have seemingly lost sight of is that for many of these illnesses, they are in fact far worse when contracted as adults, and vaccination does not guarantee life-long immunity.
Afaik there has been a huge increase in mumps in young adults over the last few years as the mumps component of the MMR has ceased to continue to be effective and immunity has been lost, and as such many young adults are contracting mumps at a time when their health is at far greater risk from it.
My DS is thirteen now so we're way beyond the time of vaccinations, but although he did have all his jabs, MMR etc I will never be comfortable with the idea that we blindly inject around ten live viruses into tiny babies from the age of six weeks to just over a year and consider that it's healthy to do so. Possibly the lesser of two evils in some instances, but healthy? Absolutely not.
It's also worth remembering that until not so long ago the baby jabs contained thermerisol (sp?) which contains Mercury which was, iirc, linked to vaccine damage in babies.
And lastly, people are very quick to jump on anyone who dares to suggest that death is rare in e.g. Cases of chicken pox, on the basis of "you wouldn't be saying that if it was your child," and they all rush out to vaccinate their children and berate anyone who doesn't. Why then are the parents of babies who are the victims of vaccine damage not given the same understanding? Why, if people bring up the point that children do die and become severely disabled as a result of some vaccinations is the fact that "you wouldn't be saying that if it was your child," not met with the same understanding?
There is a vaccine damage compensation fund in this country. if vaccine damage was a myth such a compensation fund wouldn't exist would it?
Also, a number of people have recently received compensation after developing narcolepsy following the swine flu vaccine, while we all look at MMR as the scary culprit, the fact is that damage from vaccinations does occur, maybe not on a mass scale, but equally on no less a scale than e.g. Deaths from mild illnesses we rush to vaccinate against.