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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 14:10:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> 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.
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> So, imo and in my experience, anyone who has contracted AIDS through
> unprotected sex (or needle sharing, also something that was known then) after
> that period pretty much ought to take responsibility for his or her actions.
I am genuinely curious: How can you be so sure that everyone in the world
knows about this? Have you seen a report that stated every school district in
the world teaches safe sex? And even if they do, what about private/religious
schools, or people who home school(1)? I would wager that sex related
discussions are taboo in many cultures in the world.
Jeff
1 - I'd include tribal learning with home schooling.
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| (...) We're veering around, I think Mike and Ed and I are sparring about the US, where it's pretty hard to ignore the truth about how to catch it at this point, it being common knowledge. There may be remote parts of the world that haven't figured (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) I could just say something like "so, I don't care about people in the other parts of the world." But that would make me heartless. Let me revise what I said to be limited to those in the US. I'd wager that even those in the US going to (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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