Being vaccinated means you are protected, not anyone else

No. I'll be sick for a shorter time and I'll be safe from hospitalization but your reckless infection will give it to someone who won't be as lucky as me.

And that's entirely because the vaccine works but you didn't bother.

"I'll be sick for a shorter time" So, you'll be sick, out of hospital, and infecting people.

.... not after I've recovered, no. Are you under the impression that a sick person stays sick forever?

Just because your symptoms last for a shorter period of time doesn’t mean you’re not getting sick.

If you have the vaccine, but still get COVID. Even if your symptoms are less you’re still getting COVID. And if you get COVID after you’ve been vaccinated, then there’s no point in calling it a vaccine.

Cool. But I'm sick for less and I infect fewer people AND THEN FEWER PEOPLE DIE AND THE LOCKDOWNS END.

And that is the exact definition of a vaccine: something that induces antibodies to fight the infection more quickly.