Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!crcmar!steve
From: steve@crcmar.crc.uucp (Steve Ardron)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
Message-ID: <593@crcmar.crc.uucp>
Date: 20 Jan 88 20:36:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: crcmar.593
Posted: Wed Jan 20 15:36:16 1988
References: <2301@crash.cts.com> <1843@optilink.UUCP>
Organization: CRC, Ottawa CANADA
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Summary: AIDS

Clayton E. Cramer says:
> 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.


Well, now that we see your prejudices, how about someone who cuts their finger
and comes into contact with bodily fluids of an AIDS sufferer? Or someone who
gives mouth->mouth recesitation to someone with aids? Are you telling me that
someone who tries to save anothers life deserves to get AIDS?

What about someone who has a monogamous relation with someone who once had a 
relation with someone who had a relation ... with someone who had AIDS? They
may even be ignorant that their partner had had sex earlier.

Or, what about the children who are know being born with AIDS? Are you some
religious nut who thinks that Original sin makes newborn babies guilty of
any indiscresions their parents committed?

  Be real. Think out what you say first. Some of what you said might have 
true once when the disease was starting out in the Western world, but now
it has spread far beyond the high risk groups, and it is just too easy to
catch.
		    Nothing personal,
				      Stevie.