Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!jay@banzai.PCC.COM From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Intentional Transmission of AIDS Keywords: criminal recklessness Message-ID: <39649@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 90 20:54:15 GMT References: <38625@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <39235@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <39321@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <39513@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <39582@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 34 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2576 In <39582@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> li40163@prism.gatech.edu (M. AXFORD) writes: > But I support laws that punish for violating the rights of >another. Drink all you want, but if you drink and drive >accept the responsibility that you may get punished. Make love >all you want, but both accept the responsibility to prevent >bad things happening and that if you are careless or knowingly >hurt someone else, then you may get sick or you may be punished >by law. So, do tell, are you saying that those who don't get tested, and don't know their HIV status then, and have unsafe sex, are less culpable than those who do know? What about the ones who were tested but the test was a false negative, or they had the test before they had time to produce antibodies? Are they guilty or not? How about when the rubber breaks because you didn't use enough lube, should you go to jail for that? Or should the rubber company? Sex (not rape) is a completely (on all sides) consensual act (unlike driving). When two (or more) people choose to have unsafe sex, *they* are choosing to do so, and *they* should accept responsibility for their actions. If your decision is based upon lies told you, that's one thing, but if it's based upon ignorance, that's another. I'm not saying that someone who knowingly spreads HIV isn't a sleazewad; anyone who knowingly or unknowingly spreads HIV is a sleazewad, and anyone who allows themself to become infected because they aren't asking the right questions, or are trusting people who are lying to them, is downright stupid. -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'