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From: joe@emacs.UUCP (Joe Chapman)
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Subject: Re: Answer to AIDS questions
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Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 17:10:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 17:10:28 1985
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>> I quit smokin but I'll be damned if I'll quit exchangin fluids!
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>> Marnix
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> And quite possibly dead (from AIDS) also.......

Possibly, but nearly every pleasure involves some sort of risk.
Everyone who eats raw oysters runs some risk of being poisoned, and
everyone who likes driving at 100 on the Mass Pike runs some risk of
crashing.  Lest I be criticized for ignoring the social implications
of disease, societies make these decisions as well, and people die as a
result.

I don't think it's irresponsible, either from a personal or a societal
point of view, to review the risks involved---with the help of lists
such as the one recently posted to this newsgroup, the one that caused
all of the fuss---and decide that certain acts which could conceivably
lead to disease and death are worth some risk.  A rich, sweet, wet kiss
is the primary symbol of human romance, and I'll be damned if I give it
up.  Who cares about sex, even plants do that (:-)).

--
Joe Chapman			"...and if you die, you've lost an
decvax!cca!emacs!joe		important part of your life."
joe@cca-unix.arpa			-- Brooke Shields