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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 May 2000 19:36:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > 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
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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.
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> Which, of course, will probably spark another pointless debate about how the
> government should take from those who have to help those who don't...
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
suffering from major internal strife. This strife, coupled with the large
number of people infected with AIDS could easily collapse these country's
governments. And don't think for a second that us High and Mighty Americans
will be unaffected.
Jeff
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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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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