When you mix your culturally created ideas of "morals" with science is where I draw the line and put you on the other side with other people I have no respect for.
Well if the vaccine becomes available tomorrow, then no you can't ethically decide who gets it or who doesn't get it based on a moral judgement.
However, you CAN decide as a matter of public policy which research efforts will receive more public funding than others based on a moral judgement. Its done ALL THE TIME, every single day. There are unlimited causes, but very limited funds. We MUST prioritize what is important, and among the many legitimate factors which can and do determine our priorities are basic moral judgements.
Rather monogamous? How can you be rather monogamous, you either are or you aren't. And heres a clue for everyone. Once you stick it in, you are at risk. Condoms can break,or get minute tears in them that you can't even see. People can lie about their past history, and how many they have slept with before you. They can cheat on you while you are together, and you don't have to know about it.
Hey GirlFriday, hows about trying something substantive in your argument instead of demonstrating the lack thereof by having to nit-pick my word choice?
What's more, you can't even get your nik-picking right. One of the definitions of "rather" is to mean "affirmatively", used as an emphatic affirmative, according to Webster and American Heritage Dictionary. Look before you leap, my dear (hey, isn't that a really succinct summary of what this discussion is all about?).
If you have sex nowadays, you are at risk. No matter who you are sleeping with. It's that simple.
Well sure, if you are alive, you're at risk for death. Maybe we should all hide under our beds and refuse to come out.
In the last few years there has been two cases of HIV-positive man having sex and raping women. Just last week there was case where a HIV-positive man brought women to his apartment, drugged them and raped them. Last time I heard, he had over 20 victims.
The only way to properly deal with that is execution.
Also, think of all the EMT's, doctors, nurses, etc., that are exposed to it on a daily basis... is it a mistake to help those with AIDS and possible contract it from them? and is that mistake one that should cost them thier lives?
I was first surgical assistant for years, I have been stuck with contaminated needles more times than I care to remember, I have been stuck by trocars, cut by contaminated scalpels. I have had blood splashed in my eyes, on my skin, I have been covered in urine and feces. Hasn't changed my position much. If you're using universal precautions, the risk qualifies as a statistical anomaly.
Vaccines are developed to protect the PUBLIC health from communicable diseases. This at times will mean that we protect the health of folks who's beliefs and lifestyles we don't agree with.
Sure, because beliefs and lifestyles ARE NOT A FACTOR for contracting the diseases to which we have developed vaccines to protect the public at large (as opposed to a highly identifiable and predictable subset of the population). This is not Polio, Smallpox, Cholera, or Mumps. HIV is not even moderately communicable nor even particularly contagious.
Sounds like a perfectly fine trade off to me if it means that somebody I love won't be sentenced to death for being human and making an error in judgement about who they chose to express their feelings for physically.
LMAO! Is that what they are calling negligent personal behavior now-a-days? People who 'chose to express their feelings physically'? Oh wow, that's a new one...thanks for the chuckle. And one logical inference from this statement is that responsible people obviously don't have sex? OK!
Common sense has nothing to do with it. The sex drive is only outweighed by the hunger/thirst drive; people are going to have sex no matter what you tell them.
Sure, in lower
ANIMALS, not people. We have bigger brains for a reason, and that reason isn't to make us more top heavy as a counterweight when having all of this uncontrollable, compulsive, and involuntary sex.
They get drunk, condoms break, common sense goes out the window in the heat of the moment, etc. It's just the way it is.
Yep, they get drunk, drive, kill someone, that's just the way it is. Since its so natural, then we should not punish drinking and driving.