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Originally Posted by cookmo
You seriously think it can't spread here like in africa, Asia, and is now starting to in Europe? I guess we Americans are so superior? Most new cases of AIDS here occur between the 18-24 year old age group. 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? Have you made every person you have been with show you papers from the health department first? 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. Have you ever tried to feed a family on food stamps? You would discover how quickly one can become malnourished. The sad fact is that fruits and vegetables are luxury items for many in America. 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.
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.
As for sex offenders, in my opinion those who commit crimes against children never should have a chance to get their rights back. I know that not all sex offenders are child abusers, but alot are.
Thanks for the welcome
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No, I don't see AIDS spreading here as it has in Africa. It would have already. The only way you'd see AIDS spread among straight, non-drug users in the west is if we had a significant economic crash that pushed people into a poorer state of nutrition and medical care, which would decrease the national immune system, and cause perhaps an upsurge in prostitution and other forms of increased, unsafe sexual activity.
In many parts of Africa, it is normal, commonplace, for a large percentage of the men to regularly (weekly) seek the service of a prostitute, married or not. There is no hint of this being immoral or wrong in their society. This happens only in the very margins of the west (on such a scale), and even then, is not preferred.
AIDS has been around, as a diagnosed illness, for 25 years. It has probably been around a lot longer than that, undiagnosed. If straight, white, middle class America (or Canada, Britain, Germany, etc) was going to get it, we would have got it by now. But it is simply not a significant problem.
Is it a problem in the ghettoes? Yes, though even so, it is not on the scale of Africa, where in places like Botswana perhaps 1/3 of the population has AIDS. Even so, this is nothing new. Tuberculosis, typhoid, now AIDS - illness has always followed the poor, weak and immune supressed around.
The point is nothing has really changed. AIDS remains confined to specific social groups within the west, it's not spreading - and unlike typhoid or tuberculosis, there are readily accessible means for people to prevent AIDS. Don't fuck strangers. Wear a condom. Don't share needles.