Declining your pet’s rabies vaccine?

As in, your pet could contract rabies, bite or scratch you, and then you don’t get the shot in time due to either denial, or you’re too ignorant to see the symptoms of rabies in your pet, or they are displaying the more subtle symptoms and you don’t catch it?

Even if you do catch it and treat yourself, now Fluffy has a fatal illness and has to die.

What an astoundedly stupid decision.