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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (729828)	3/7/2006 5:15:23 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 769670

"Tragic, yes. Is help of any kind available, no." Yes, love and kindness, rather than moral blame. There is help. In fact, AIDS is a preventable disease in the vast majority of cases. What blocks the prevention of the epidemic is persons like your self who refuse to face the facts. It can be helped, In fact, it can be almost completely eliminated. Your fear of moral responsibility blinds you to that fact. AIDs is an epidemic like Polio. Polio was eradicated. Here are are some key differences that I see between the two. 1) Polio was spread as a matter of social interaction. Activity that resulted in the spread of Polio throughout the mainstream was not seen as a matter of personal choice. The victims could be viewed as true victims of circumstances outside of their control. 2) AIDs is contracted and spread by persons (in the vast majority of cases) who are making a choice to engage in an unsafe manner in risky and unnecessary, in some cases illegal, conduct. The victims in the majority of cases are ignoring warnings, disregarding the protections available, and often knowingly victimizing others. 3) Polio was not seen as preventable. 4) AIDs is easily preventable. 5) A cure was found for Polio. 6) A reliable cure has not yet been found for AIDs. 7) The population that could be victimized by POLIO banded together in cooperation to take responsibility for the elimination of Polio by undergoing treatment to eradicate the disease. Polio is gone. 8)The population that is being victimized by AIDS does not take responsibility for behavior that could prevent the spread of AIDs. They do seek a government remedy in the promotion of the notion of Safe Sex. That notion showed some limited success early on but soon lost favor with the risk population and now appears to be showing negative results. That is, most or all public school students receive sex education, condoms are readily available to those who choose that method of prevention, yet the spread of AIDs is on the increase. Bottom line: AIDs is not curable but is preventable. Polio was curable but not preventable. Both could be eradicated: AIDs by cooperation in prevention and POLIO by cooperation in the cure. The main difference is the cooperation and responsibility taken by the populations at risk. Those at risk of Polio took responsibility. Those at risk of AIDs bash Bush. One method has been successful, the other has not.

To: E. T. who wrote (729828)	3/8/2006 8:37:16 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

E.T. As far as the children are concerned, I agree that they need, and deserve, love and caring, but the adults that, through their activities, got aids, I have no pity for them. After all these years, they knew damned good an well that the disease was around, and should have taken the proper precautions. It is those adults fault that the children had to suffer for what they did before the children were born. So, where the adults are concerned, I will most certainly accuse them having no morals, and blame them for what happened to the innocent children.