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(...) You mean something like "honest friendship with all who seek it, entangling alliances with none"? Now, who said that? ++Lar (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The ones who listen to the education and change their habits will live and those who don't won't. Heartlessly simple, but then, that's evolution in action for you... It will only take a few generations. In geological time, that's "shortly". (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Several things are concurrently happening. Some of them are dying. Such an alarming number of them are sick, that their broken social system that has thus far not provided a socially acceptable method of teaching basic health and safty topic (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, I should have added to my post(s) that I do not support the giving/using of life-prolonging drugs that would result in the situation Tom just described above. (thought about when i started to write and promptly forgot about it :/ ). (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why does my own priorities about how my tax money should be spent have to do with whether or not I "care" about those people? Do I think its too bad that that many people get AIDS and will more than likely die from it? Yeah, I do. I also think (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How can you say how much I care or not? I didn't address my personal caring for those people, I made a statement about how they rate in my priority system when I'm thinking about how I'd like for my government to spend the money it takes from (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What leads you to think that? The infected people are not all dying very soon. Some (many) of them do not know they are infected, and many of them do not know how to prevent transmitting HIV. They will continue to pass it on, and probably for (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) heard (...) As I understand it, infection by the father isn't transmitted via conception at all. And, for reasons somewhat unknown, HIV infected mothers frequently produce babies without infection. So, your premis isn't correct. (...) But even (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is somewhat rambling, but here goes... (...) But it doesn't HAVE to go on - all you have to do is force the damned idea through their heads that SEX (and sharing needles) CAN KILL, so either stay monogamous, or use condoms, or just use your own (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Whoa, now wait just a minute. The US a CAUSE, simply because "action" (i.e. public money used to help develop drugs that the Private drug companies are profiting from) wasn't taken fast enough? Think that statement through a bit more. Africa (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) how do you figure? i think a 25% infection rate with all offspring produced after infection of the parent being affected would set some alarms off for the possibility of a local extinction. Especially if you figure that the infection rate has (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So what you are saying is that you don't care that 250,000(1) people around the world get infected by HIV/AIDS every month? What makes you think that what goes on in other less developed parts of the world will not affect the USA? This is a (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True. We'll hear about it on the news. Chris (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am apalled by this heartless attitude. How can you care so little for people who are suffering, just because they don't live in your country? The countries suffering the hardest can't afford to do medical research, and many of them are (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) in (...) First, I agree with Mike's post to a large extent. On the other hand, if we're to guide those nations into being good customer states, this might be a good investment. But my real point is that I've read that international healthcare (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) countries. (...) Maybe I used the term special interest incorrectly. I think of a special interest as being any sub-group of the population who wants public monies distributed in a certain way such that it will specifically help their sub (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not ignoring it. I just don't (personally) think they figure into my own "how should the government that is funded by MY tax dollars spend my money" equation, at least not more prominently than those "in need" in the US. Which, of course, (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just my own $.02, the scrupulous ones are the ones who quit. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) None of these diseases have infected, and will kill, a quarter of the people in many African countries. Why is almost everyone ignoring this fact? These people are the reason we should try to find a cure. I doubt many of them have access to (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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