>Ok Dragan.
>I'm the KrAzY one. Lets just drop it.
>After May, it's all over for me anyways.
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>In my "fantacy" world there are those that are more deserving of what little resources we have before we can think about those that live life recklessly. And just because something seems like a loss cause doesn't mean we give up.
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>And as far as Brazilians (or anyone else) turning down the money, fine. But why couldn't they have accepted it and help some of their people. And later if France or some other more "generous" and more "enlighten" nation contribute, they can do whatever they wish.
I think you are missing one of the key points, and that is that
AIDS is an epidemic. When did we ever hear of treatment for poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, rabies, etc., given to some, and denied to others? A single sick person (or mammal, in the case of rabies) can become the source of a large new outbreak. Denying polio treatment to negroes people of a certain skin color (for example) will, in the end, damage the entire population. In other words, as far as possible, every sick individual must be identified, and treated.
Whoever conceived the idea of denying treatment to part of the population has an excess of religious bigotry, of chromosomes, or of both.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)