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Originally posted by forgotten_dream
Was this caused by western opression? Or exploitation?
The bottom line is, these people don't have aids because they were "exploited". They have this disease because they are ignorant, and refuse to simply STOP HAVING SEX when it's going to KILL THEM.
The old folks that need medication, the people that are out of a job, those are the people that need our help. Once these people have been helped, then I say we go out and be the best buddy of the rest of the world.
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I aree with you on that they should get their f.ing act together and start taking responsibility. But there's another side to the problem. A divebuddy of mine was down in South Africa as a volunteer nurse in a small village and was among other things informing on safe sex and AIDS. When she had been there for 3 months and started making progress and reaching the people the president in that country (can't remember his name) went public with that there was no connection between HIV and AIDS and a lot of other completly messed up information. Who will the people belive, a female nurse in her twenties living temproray in their village or the president of their country? The only way to stop the spread of this terrible disease is to give people the gift of critical thinking and the only way to do that is to educate them.
The other aspect of it is the children who are born with the disease. They can't be blamed in anyway for the situation they are in.
But still: You can't help the people who are to ignorant to be helped, us atheists belive evolution will solve that problem.
