Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU!shepard
From: shepard@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU (Marc Shepard)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: stupidity
Message-ID: <8801120313.AA06655@jiff>
Date: 12 Jan 88 03:13:26 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: shepard@bosco.BERKELEY.EDU (Marc Shepard)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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This is in responce to Clayton Cramer who said that aids patients
who got the disease through I.V. drug use or too many sex partners
were not really victims. His argument being that they were
paying for there stupidity.

Well Clayton (or may I call you knucklehead?) you have an interesting
point. One problem with your argument is that most people who
have the disease now first got it 7 years ago, when nobody knew
anything about it. For example, if you were to die 10 years down
the road shortly after they discovered nose picking leads to death,
it would be unfair of someone to say you were stupid (unless of course
they had read the artical you posted).
The other problem with your argument is that death is obviously too
extreme of a punishment for stupidity (I would think that you'd be
thankful about that).