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Originally Posted by cookmo
You never screwed up once when you were young and dumb( I assume we all were at one time) and had some form of unsafe sex?
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Nope, primarily because I don't want AIDs or other STDs.
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Have you made every person you have been with show you papers from the health department first?
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No papers, but STD testing before a unsafe sexual relationship is certainly a common practice, and should be encouraged.
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And as for suppressed immune systems, AIDS is on the rise in black America, if you look at the statistics the people who are getting AIDS here are poor, have little or no access to healthcare, and are on welfare.
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I've not seen these statistics, but a link would be appreciated if you have one.
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So, what do you think will happen to an already strained social net, when each year more and more pressure is applied to it? There will be even less social help to go around, the poor will get sicker, and henceforth AIDS will spread. Repeat cycle....We have become like everyone else.
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I honestly don't get this logic. Why will AIDs spread as a result of the poor getting sicker?
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I understand the serious impact marginilization can have on a group of people. I am not saying to persecute AIDS patients by making them wear little red A's on their sleeves. I am not saying to persecute them at all. But the general feel of the public in America currently is that we all must give up some freedoms for protection as a whole.And the two don't compare, the idea is to save lives, not genocide.
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Hmm, well if the individual practices safe sex and doesn't share needles when using heavy drugs, the chances of getting AIDs can get greatly reduced. If people enter sexual relationships without practicing safe sex and requesting STD testing first, getting AIDs shouldn't be too much of a shock when they do in fact find out they have it.
There are diseases that are very tough, almost impossible, to prevent. Some types of cancer, for instance. But AIDs is not hard to prevent at all, given the right protection methods and restrictions when it comes to sexual activity.
I don't think people with AIDs should have to wear labels, letters, or anything to indicate they are a carrier. I do think people that don't want AIDs should practice safe sex, as well as pre-relationship testing if they don't intend to practice safe sex. Personal accountability is important. Those that don't practice it, may very well end up with AIDs. They might get lucky some of the time, or even all of the time, but to me it seems like a silly risk to take, when prevention is so easy.