Have you ever gotten those emails with the annual Darwin Award winners? You know the ones that pick winners for the stupidest ways people die? The motto of the winners is “I don’t think, therefore I am not.” They are a classic example of thinning the herd.
I would like to know why they haven’t added “sharing drug needles” or “having unprotected sex” to these lists of insanely stupid ways to die? Instead they teach us to not have a strength contest by hanging on a freeway overpass railing. Or they teach us not to get off a bus moving 60 MPH for a cigarette.
At the International HIV/AIDS conference going on in Toronto Bill Gates gave the cure out, but very few people heard him.
You see, Uganda has dramatically reduced HIV in their nation by implementing something called ABC.
A – Abstinence
B – Be Faithful
C – Condomize
Yet the crowd in Toronto was so upset at the mention of “abstinence” that they booed so loud the B and C parts were drowned out. Every person at the conference who booed and dies of AIDS should be a Darwin Award winner.
Are the attendees at this conference so hard up (pardon the pun) to shove their unprotected peckers between a couple of hairy buns that they would risk their lives for it? I would classify this as Darwin Award winning behaviour, wouldn’t you?
This disease can be licked in a single lifetime. Our lifetime. All that we need to do is follow the ABC method and stop sharing drug needles. We don’t need billions on research for a cure. We already have it.
It’s easy as ABC folks.
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Hang on… all three of those actions call for personal responsibility. That’ll never do! Don’t you realize taking personal responsibility is the most un-PC thing ever? Why, if that sort of thing was allowed to go unchallenged, it might destroy the culture of victimology and people might start admitting their choices had some influence over their lives.
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Mac, you hit the nail on the head. People are so controlled by their sexual urges that they can’t stop for a minute and think about the value of their life or the value of the life of the one across from them.
Are people that stupid or are they bitter and looking to take as many others down with them? I would love to know how the numbers break down because there are most certainly people out there who know they are HIV positive and continue to have unprotected sex.
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We’ve had a couple of cases here in BC where men with HIV are being charged and, in at least one case, convicted for aggrevated sexual assault because they haven’t warned their partners. The guy who was convicted infected several women. In a case like that guy, taking precautions would interfere with his lifestyle choices… although it’s bizarre to think some many women would risk themselves by having unprotected sex with this guy.
One doesn’t have to be stupid to be irresponsible but it certainly helps. People don’t look want to look out for their own future. It’s much easier to throw their fate to the winds and then let the government clean up the mess afterward… and we wonder why our medical system and welfare systems are overloaded?
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Exactly my thoughts on the matter. What ever happened to personal responsiblity in general? We are so quick to defend our rights to do what we want, but we expect the government to jump in to clean up the mess afterwards.
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