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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 02:23:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ed Jones writes:
> 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
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> > 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?
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 get AIDS?
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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