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Thread #125426 Message #2816847
Posted By: GUEST,mauvepink
20-Jan-10 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
50 times more than what exactly? What does that 50 times really mean? The 50 times, for it to mean anything, has to be 50 time more in some real term. So, if you have a 0.01% of getting something and you are now 50 times more likely you then have a 0.5% chance. That is still a small risk than say the chance of you being killed by some other illness.
As a woman on HRT I am 4 times more likely than a woman not on HRT to get a thrombosis. But as the chances of gettinga thrombosis in the first place are so low, then being 4 times more likely is still low risk.
That 50 times more likely - and I am still at a loss as to how that is gauged - may be a high risk or still very low dependant on what it is compared to in the first place.
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So, okay... we lock up all the gay men in chastity devices, to remove them from the dataset and any chance they could be blamed or included in the figures. That's them out of the way....
Now: How do we deal with all the other disease ridden risk takers having free and promiscuous sex? What do we do with those with HIV/AIDS, who are not gay but have got it through sex? How do we start judging them to try and rid the world of being sexually human?
That is why this singling of gay men is so stupid. Because even if they were not involved in the figures, we would still have HIV/AIDS and still have one heck of a health issue on our hands. Gay males are not scapegoats to be used for convenience. Get rid of gay men and we still have the same problem. The only thing that would be solved is with no gay men it would also kill off the homophobe but I have no doubt they would move on to blame someone else.
This is NOT a gay problem. It's a human population health problem.
Going even further back to the start of the thread. Love will be part way to solving the whole thing. Love, respect and acceptance of fellow humans. A common front against the disease itself, in order to find a cure, and an end to the discriminations that lead people to not seek help and advice.
HIV/AIDS will not be got rid of by hatred. It will not be got rid of by what is being called lberalism on this thread. Politicise it all you want but that will not stop it either. We cannot legislate against people having sex so the only end to this will education to try and stop people having unprotected sex, but ultimately finding a cure.