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11-29-2006, 04:01 AM | #1 |
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I am still shocked at the AIDS numbers I see
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/..._global_deaths
Much of the problem of AIDS is related to homophobia among the general public and the sentiment that AIDS victims "deserve" what they get. Nobody deserves AIDS. It is awful, and the problem is getting worse. |
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I agree that no one deserves AIDS and we should try to find a cure, but my sense is that the ongoing research there is well financed. I also don't think that anyone deserves cirrhosis of the liver and yet I wouldn't put an alcoholic at the top of the transplant list. I guess if I'm really being honest, I am somewhat indifferent to the plight of most people, not just AIDS victims, who engage in risky behavior and then experience the consequences. Agreed that contracting AIDS is a steep price to pay from an ill advised sexual encounter but so is 18 years is child support. Being suddenly much flatter and wider seems like a disproportionate penalty for packing your parachute incorrectly, but then jumping out of airplanes is a risky thing to do. I care basically about the children who are born with it through no fault of their own and for that reason am very much in favor of all the efforts to cure it and prevent it. If the secondary beneficiaries of that are adults who contract it because of risky behavior that is fine as well. In the end I disagree that there is a homophobia issue at play here at this point though I believe there once was. I think it has more to do with the fact that most people contract it through risky behavior (or so it is percieved) and a lot of people are pretty indifferent to that.
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11-29-2006, 04:35 AM | #3 |
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Heaven forbid people wear condoms and quit sharing drug needles.
EASILY Preventable behaviors that lead to the MAJORITY of the problem. Of course this is where liberals take those comments as saying that people who share the sentiment of prevention are saying those who get the disease earned it. They have an incredible ability to read something and then lie about the what they've just read to convince themselves of factually incorrect thought processes.
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Of course now this is where someone again uses their biased personal Urim and Thummim and translates the term risky behavior into an attack against homosexuals.
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Why do some believe the US has the obligation to cure the world's problems?
To me, it shows a sense of ignorance of history and of the role of nations. The US has the duty to be fair to itself and its citizens, nothing more, nothing less. Becoming a world cop is counterproductive to its interests. We are also not the world's economic healer. To the extent, we can benefit our citizens, then it makes sense to become involved. To the extent, we are not benefitted, then it makes no sense.
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11-29-2006, 05:48 PM | #7 |
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Elder Russell M. Nelson - - - "Aids is a plauge abetted by the immoral"
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So is obesity.
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11-29-2006, 10:21 PM | #9 |
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So sticking a corndog in one's mouth is akin to sticking something else in one's mouth then?
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11-29-2006, 11:15 PM | #10 |
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It depends on the context. In terms of "immorality," most would agree that sexual promiscuity is worse than gluttony (although gluttony is considered one of the 7 deadly sins, so perhaps I overstate things here). In terms of costs to society, gluttony costs billions and causes even more deaths (through heart disease, etc.). And yet, how many people would argue that funding cures for heart disease or adult diabetes (which is frequently caused by obesity) is of less importance than finding a cure for cancer, for example, because the people "deserve" what they get?
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