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Thread #151677   Message #3548337
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Aug-13 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
I didn't define fascist.

Yes, infecting people knowingly (by which I assume you mean maliciously) or negligently (the distinction is yours) is bad. But there have been very few authenticated cases of deliberately infecting people with HIV, so there's a bit of that good ol' demonisation going on there. As for negligently, I have a much better idea than laws and court cases. Let's have some really good education for relationships in schools and let's make contraceptive advice and barrier contraception free. If you sneer at that, as moralisers such as Ake, popes, Mother Teresa-types and bishops do, you are actually saying that you would rather like to see HIV continue to be a bit of a scourge, as it gives you yet another instrument of moral control over the flock. Ignorance is the friend of that virus and of moralisers.