Hopefully, this was just a random sample of people who were given the vaccine, to be compared with a similar random sample of people who were not, with all other things being held constant. Not people who were given the vaccine then ordered to try and contract HIVWho were the "volunteers?
..... obviously Magic Johnson ....
...and Cartman
Are you......HIV positive about that?
Yay!
More people on this only planet that sustains life and that's already been damaged by overpopulation!!! Nevermind we can't support more people, but let's support people that were already being irresponsible with their lives to begin with!! Yay!!
Yay more people that'll go 'Oh no, I have an incurable disease, why wasn't I more responsible!?! Why wasn't I cautious?!!....Oh, wait there's a vaccine? Oh, then I'll just take that everytime I'm being irresponsible and have no value over my life or the life of others because it can be CURED, what an easy fix!!!'
=/
Like you?
I judge people who don't think ahead about their health or decided to live irresponsibly. The point is the people who contacted HIV or AIDS had the responsibility to themselves. Practice safe sex, always use condoms and dental dams, don't pick up that next drink and your thinking wouldn't have been impaired, don't go somewhere with someone you don't know anything about, even if you're in a relationship you and your parnter should both be tested and reveal the results to each other together in the doctor's office. The only true victims of AIDS and HIV are those who have been raped , but most especially the kids that haven't even reached adolescence or had sex and contracted it through their irresponsible parents.
So Snowcrab, anything that serves the purpose of curing or mediating the influence of a potentially avoidable disease or affliction should not exist?
In some ways basically. But you're being a bit black and white too with your judgment on me and anyone else who may feel similar to me, aren't ya? At least, I'm taking the time to consider your stand on it too, buddy. There are some diseases of afflictions which are completely avoidable with proper eduation or engineering research or acricultural research to avoid certain diseases and some are just clearly genetic and not the person's fault.
BUT, there's also self-restraint and common sense to avoid diseases and just general could-have-been-prevented bad situations, which is what my real gripe is. Why should I empathize with people who put themselves in situations of their own making that were so gung-ho about their decision to engage in dumb behavior or practices...and now they deserve a easy-out for their crappy decisions? There's big difference between cancer and an sexually transmitted infection.
For instance, if you eat lots of corrosive things and you notice the corrosive effects of it either in yourself or someone else's teeth, but still do it anyway, do you really think your teeth and gums won't rot either just because it's you?
What about when you drink, do you really think you can go on and on with drinking when you've been told or even shown the effects it does to your insides with constant consumption...how can you be surprised when then the doctor has proof you have long-term problems with your kidney, joints, or liver? (friend of mine =/ )
Let's say now it's HIV/AIDS, couldn't you have gone without that casual sex or at least gone with protection? Shouldn't you put down that drink at that party like you've been warned by your own peers? Shouldn't you have gotten yourself and your new partner tested?
It's about common sense and self-restraint and just plain listening to someone just a little smarter than yourself.
Don't gotta worry about that, never did. My family is remarkably immaculate with our health and responsiblities. The only exception has been me and my brothers, we've been reckless. I have been the most reckless and I'm the oldest so now they have an example not aspire completely too in certain ways and in other ways I'm a warning sign
I had two close calls during my college days when it came to sexually transmitted diseases. And you know what? I owe up to the fact that despite my whining before the results came in; "It's not my fault", "It was just a few times I didn't use protection", "But the sex was good", "I didn't think anything bad would really happen"---it was my fault in those situations. Thinking back on my younger, more reckless self, if I had gotten the big, bad results I would have gotten what I deserve for the stupidity, it could have been prevented with just my actions.
Like I said the only true victims that have my empathy with AIDS/HIV are the afflicted kids with disease/infection positive parents that transmitted it to them and also the rape victims. They're the only ones with any right to a cure.
People can be careful and still get it. People can be married and get it because they're partners cheat. To say that "you can't have the cure because you had unprotected sex ONCE" is silly.
That's like saying because I smoked a couple of cigarettes in high school I shouldn't get the cure for lung cancer if ever they get one.
You ate a Big Mac.....no Lipator for you!!!
It's not that cut and dry.
I agree that the world is overpopulated, but that's because of people having too many kids, not because of curing disease. Did your parents only have two kids? No?.......so....no cures for you all then!!
Let me start by saying that you started out here being a troll, and promoting jingoistic, intellectually bankrupt, ideologically-driven drivel that isn't really worth responding to in the first place, so first, let me apologize for even wasting my time getting involved here.I had two close calls during my college days when it came to sexually transmitted diseases. And you know what? I owe up to the fact that despite my whining before the results came in; "It's not my fault", "It was just a few times I didn't use protection", "But the sex was good", "I didn't think anything bad would really happen"---it was my fault in those situations. Thinking back on my younger, more reckless self, if I had gotten the big, bad results I would have gotten what I deserve for the stupidity, it could have been prevented with just my actions.
Like I said the only true victims that have my empathy with AIDS/HIV are the afflicted kids with disease/infection positive parents that transmitted it to them and also the rape victims. They're the only ones with any right to a cure.
Enter your email address to join: