Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!SECBH%CUNYVM.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu From: SECBH%CUNYVM.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Intentional Transmission of AIDS Message-ID: <39347@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 90 13:38:48 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center Lines: 24 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2525 li40163@prism.gatech.edu (M. AXFORD) writes: > Sure, one should take responsibility for one's self. But I >do think people who behave this way should be prosecuted. It >totally horrifies me that there are people who care so little >they are willing to risk causing someone else's death. I find it equally horrifying that in the midst of a deadly plague in which sexual transmission is the primary route of infection that anyone cares so little about him/herself that he/she is willing to have unsafe sex. Isn't this carelessness to the point of suicide? > I have known at least one case of this kind of behavior. A >friend of mine's ex gave him the virus and after they broke up >my friend knew he was having unprotected sex with others. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I rest my case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Carroll "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny." Martin Luther King, Jr.