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  • #16
    AIDs is certainly a serious problem, but also one that is easily preventable through allowing condom distribution. If the Catholic Church would step up and endorse condom use as a means of preventing the spread of AIDs and other STDs (and pregnancy), that might go a long way. The rebuttal that the only 100% effective form of prevention is to simply not have sex is neither realistic nor accurate.

    Another very simply preventative measure is education. Former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa wins the "Dumbass of the Decade" Award, for a)denying a link between HIV and AIDs, and b)promoting herbal and beet-based rememdies over, you know, medicine. Think there's a link between the government of South Africa (and the Catholic Church, hell, most world religions in general) peddling biased and dangerously inaccurate information and the fact that South Africa has the largest number of AIDs/HIV sufferers in the world? I do.

    With that said, I do NOT support forcing the major pharmaceuticals to give away AIDs medication for free. That medicine cost billions to develop, and forcing those who developed to give it away for free is unfair, especially when it will likely do no good (due to ongoing dangerous activity, local corruption, poor distribution networks, poor education about how to take the drug cocktails, etc.). I hate to say it, but for the majority of people in the Third World, there is probably no solution, for the reasons I listed above. One can only hope that their governments and their religions shape up, get with the 21st Century, and find some way to support future prevention.
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    • #17
      Sorry Ben, but:

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      • #18
        Happy Condom
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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        • #19
          I've always insisted that segregation of the HIV-infected would solve the whole problem rather quickly.
          Graffiti in a public toilet
          Do not require skill or wit
          Among the **** we all are poets
          Among the poets we are ****.

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          • #20
            Those are called concentration camps.
            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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            • #21
              So you'd mandate everyone in the world would be quarantined and held without contact from eachother for six months (to account for HIV manifestation) and tested?
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #22
                He's talking to you, onodera.
                Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                • #23
                  That I am.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                  Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Wezil View Post
                    What a terrible thing to celebrate.
                    Damn, beat me to it.
                    Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                    When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by OzzyKP View Post
                      Damn, beat me to it.
                      Go away! Go to some youth rights rally or something.
                      A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                      • #26
                        He's here representing gay youth.
                        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                        • #27
                          “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
                          "Capitalism ho!"

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                            He's here representing gay youth.
                            He's a pimp?
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Asher View Post
                              So you'd mandate everyone in the world would be quarantined and held without contact from eachother for six months (to account for HIV manifestation) and tested?
                              No, just isolate the risk groups first, and then test both populations. If you're clean, you get out, if you're infected, you go in. Repeat the test several times for the clean population (once a year will suffice), and after 5 years or so you have the virus safely contained.
                              Graffiti in a public toilet
                              Do not require skill or wit
                              Among the **** we all are poets
                              Among the poets we are ****.

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                              • #30
                                The problem is the 6 month incubation period for HIV
                                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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