Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
Message-ID: <1843@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 17:39:54 GMT
References: <2301@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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>         This is not to say that all Virus victims are guilty, but NO AIDS
>           VICTIMS ARE "GUILTY".

I don't know HOW this got involved with computer software piracy, but this
statement REALLY annoys me.

Many AIDS patients (NOT victims) have AIDS because of extremely promiscuous
completely casual sex, or because of IV drug use.  These, at least, are 
"guilty" -- at a minimum, of extreme stupidity.

I'm sick and tired of being told that someone who lies down to get sodomized
by dozens of guys in a row, without even knowing their names; someone who
injects heroin with a dirty needle; someone who engages in sex with
prostitutes is a "victim".  Patient, yes.  Sufferer, yes.  But not a 
victim.  A victim has no control over what happened to them.  People engaged
in these activities, regardless of sexual preference, had some control over
what happened -- they chose not to exercise self-control.

Would anyone claim that a cigarette smoker with cancer is a victim?  No,
someone who is suffering the consequences of their actions.

Clayton E. Cramer