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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 May 2000 10:42:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
[snip a bunch a debate bait]
> Trust me, I know why. Now answer this, why, if we have limited resources,
> should we spend government funds to treat full blown AIDS, or for that matter,
> to treat lung cancer caused by smoking, any more than we should treat people
> who walk off cliffs deliberately? There IS such a thing as taking
> responsibility for one's actions. Now, 15 years after we have learned how to
> avoid AIDS transmission, ignorance is no longer an excuse.
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> ++Lar
Except that the incubation period for AIDS is 3-15 years. There are people who
are only now discovering that they have AIDS.
But I won't bother debating this with you further as you seem to hold the
opinion that those with AIDS should have known better, deserve their fate so
let them die. It is an inhumane statement of the "80's ME" generation.
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 | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) Who says you've *been* debating? Not me. What you've been doing is ducking. Let's be perfectly clear, you've decided to dodge discussion on what the appropriate funding level for research is in our mixed economy because you're convinced that (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) I'm sorry, Ed, but I graduated from high school in 1988, that's 12 years ago. We knew then, in what you would probably call a backwater southern city (Nashville), that unprotected sex could end up killing you. So, imo and in my experience, (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) have (...) Cite please. It's certainly not the number one cause of death, I think that's heart disease. (24 % of all deaths?? I can't recall) Further, it's not the number one disease either. I'd put the common cold at the top of the disease (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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