Decent logic. Well said. AND…
Much appreciated.
Also, I DO Exist was advertised in SD News Notes, a Catholic newspaper,a few months back. drthrockmorton.com/idoexist.asp
And if we question the expenditure of funds on a cure for something that is 100% preventable, then we might also ask why are we throwing money away on public health measures to control something that is 100% preventable. While we are at it, we could also eliminate public health measures aimed at all venereal diseases.
The short answer is no.
Zoot said:
Public health measures that may have had SOME hope of controlling the AIDS epidemic were eviscerated by homosexual activists years ago. I don’t know if there ARE any public health measures aimed at STDs anymore. I do know in the 70s that if someone were diagnosed with an STD (mostly gonorrhea in those days) public health was notified. They followed up both with the original patient and by requesting information on his/her partners. In turn those partners were contacted and requested they come in for testing and treatment. As a result syph was basically eradicated and gonorrhea was pretty rare as well. Heck the big concern in those days was herpes. Seems pretty mild in comparison to a fatal disease like AIDS but there was extensive followup in an effort to slow down the transmission of the herpes virus. That’s the function of public health.
Ah yes. The watered down version of the Socratic Method. All the questions. Virtually none of the insight.
The questions may lack insight, but I note the answers are also lacking…
I am in full agreement with pushing the morals/abstinence approach which is very applicable and teachable in the US, with a literate, well-educated populace surrounded by a culture based on Judeo-Christian ethics.
So, in your opinion those dumb Africans are not smart enough, or brave enough, to learn the moral law? They are smart enough to use a condom? Your answer to the AIDS crisis is to introduce more immorality into an already immoral culture? I guess that whole business about preaching the truth to all nations was not a command, only a suggestion?
You’ve never seen me advocating putting condoms in ANYONE’s hands as a solution to this plague. To my way of thinking it not only is a false promise of prevention, but sidesteps the moral issues involved. The solution is going to be a matter of education, moral and health which takes time. It’s also a lesson that has to be re-taught to every new sexually active generation. This is an behaviorally acquired disease as well as a behaviorally avoidable disease. That fact can’t stop us from feeling compassion for the thousands, maybe millions especially in the third world who, through no culpability of their own, find themselves suffering and dying.
That you have posed questions do not compel any of us to answer them, particularly having dealt with you in the past. You never address the answers but simply blow them off with dismissive comments and then move on to the next question. So if someone chooses to respond, that’s fine but no one is compelled to do so.
My wife’s best friend recently came back from Africa after a stint with the Peace Corps.
Please see above and don’t ever assume that I equate youth or a lack of opportunity or access to education as “dumb.” I would no more condemn these young women’s bodies for their lack of information about health care than I would their souls if they never in their lives hear the name of Jesus.
During a year of typical condom use, 14 out of 100 women will become pregnant. Still want to rely on condems preventing AIDS?