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From: uvm-gen!jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster)
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Subject: Re: Is it attempted Murder?
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Date: 29 Sep 89 19:53:57 GMT
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Tom.Mickus@f440.n250.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Mickus) writes:
>        How should society deal with those citizens who *knowingly*
>continue to practice intercourse with members of the opposite/same sex
>after having been diagnosed as carriers of one of the strains of the
>AIDs virus, and who do not tell their partners?

>        Should we lock these people up? Should they be charged with 1st
>degree murder?  Manslaughter?

Are you being ridiculous?

It seems to me that you can't be ``infected'' unless you let yourself
be infected.  People who worry about others who go around ``infecting''
people seem to me to be the ones who aren't changing their sexual
habits because of AIDS.

These are the people to worry about, to be locked up.

*Everyone* is a carrier of HIV.  Or at least, that's what you should
be thinking when you are having sex with someone.  And you shouldn't
change your behavior when they tell you they are negative.

It's your life.  No one is forcing you to have sex with this person.
If you catch AIDS from them, I think it's pretty much your problem,
not theirs.
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