Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pyramid!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: What People Try To Justify
Message-ID: <1899@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:08:26 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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I'm really impressed with some of the very angry mail I've been getting in
response to my previous postings.  I took a position that would seem beyond
reproach -- that promiscuous sex and IV drug abuse are really stupid
things to do -- and I've gotten a lot of people really angry at me, calling
me "ignorant", "stupid", "bigot".  (But of course, just insults -- no
attempts to argue that I'm incorrect on this subject -- a lot of emotions
have clearly run away from the owners).

Are there really people on the net that don't think it's incredibly stupid
to have sex with people whose name you don't know?  Even before AIDS became
an issue, there were a lot of STDs floating around.  If casual sex with
strangers caused you to get an STD, wouldn't it be stupid to not have a 
way to inform that person they were carrying an STD?

Of course, IV drug abuse is so obviously stupid, it requires no argument.
(But this is USENET -- I'm sure someone will argue that shooting up heroin
with dirty needles is perfectly rational, and I'm just a bigot for thinking
it's stupid).

As I've said before, promiscuous sex and IV drug abuse are like someone
who smokes -- why should the rest of us have to pay for your incredible
dumbness?

Clayton E. Cramer