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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 May 2000 01:51:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> But back to the issue I was addressing - tax money and how the government
> should be spending it. I know one person who has died from AIDS.
How fortunate for you. I can think of 25 off the top of my head, but in
actuality, its more like 75 that I personally knew. Of the first friends
(20+) we made when we moved to NYC in 1982, there are four - FOUR - of us still
alive.
I have
> several family members who have died from various forms of cancer (and not the
> self-inflicted lung-kind - I don't count them, although I have a few). I also
> know people afflicted with parkinsons, alzheimers, and other horrible
> diseases.
As have I. I lost my father to stomach cancer, my other half's mother to
breast cancer and his brother to throat cancer. In fact, I just lost a nephew
to severe diabetis 2 weeks ago.
Not to be cold about it, but each of them knew what to expect once they were
diagnosed. Each of them knew the path before them. When you know the enemy
you fear it less.
AIDs patients have no idea what foul preditory ailment is coming next. It is
the most complex virus known to man. It hides, it morphs itself. The weaker
your imune system becomes, the more infections take hold.
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So yeah, I'll just say it - in _my_ book, if the government is
> going to be spending money helping to fund disease research, there are quite a
> few that rank higher than AIDS.
Using your rational, money spent on diseases of the aged should be cut as well.
Why spend money to prolong the life of people on Social Security?
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I'm not sure - is that a straw man or a red herring? But I'll comment on it anyway. People don't choose to get old. People choose to have unprotected sex, of whatever kind. People choose to share needles. Is there another major way that people (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) still (...) And that's unfortunate indeed. But I don't think Mike was trying to get into a "more of my friends died" contest, merely trying to show that he has some familiarity with the pain and suffering the disease causes back when you were (...) (25 years ago, 9-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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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