Steve,

>< Even here, in the USA, the latest drugs are losing their effectiveness due to mutations of the virus. The AIDS community has spent a large amount of time and money selling to the public the idea that AIDS wasn't communicable. If they are correct then what your story says is that folks are spreading that disease by their behavior behavior, not some western plot aimed at genocide. Now, in South Africa for example, infants and babies are the targets of sexual assult because the preditors believe they are AIDS free. All the money in the world won't cure that epidemic because it is being spread by diliberate behavior. />
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>It's not communicable. If it was, we'd all have it.

?? Do you mean communicable as in airborne? I have to chuckle a little here.. When I was a small lad we were essentially told ..ehrr.. exagerated stories on how STDs (known then as clap and so forth) were transmitted. In my case it worked. <g>

>However, I do agree that it was and largely spread by behavior.

What specific behaviors would youput here? I have what I think (may be incorrect are the top 3)

1. Sexually transmitted
2. Transmitted via dirty needles
3. Transmitted via contaminated blood. (transfusions etc)

> The AIDS community never denied that.

By their words or behavior?

>What they said was that the behaivor wasn't immoral.

Here we'd disagree I suppose. Is it ok for me to think that this behavior is indeed immoral and so state on one hand and on the other to continue to treat those who disagree with me with the kinds of common courtesies everyone should enjoy? Should I first give this behavior and then be correct in my assumption that I should receive it in return? Or... Has this issue become so charged that people aren't able to be civil anymore? I see uncivil behavior on all sides but I maintain that each should be free to hold their own opinion(s).

>And now of course, AIDS has stuck everywhere.

Sad.


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>I agree hat all the money in the world won't cure AIDS. But, while there is money going towards reserch to find a cure, there is also plently of money trying to change people's behavior. It's not working in Africa, and it has mixed results here in America. Europe seemd to have been successfull. But, Europe never had a problem taking about sex. We Americans do. Especially to our kids. It's like we change as we get older. We forget what it was like when WE were young. And we lie, hide, or ignore things from our kids. Either we think "That will never happen to my kid" or we give up.

What would really work with respect to actually changing behaviors of various people do you think?

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>We teach our kids that greed is good. We've built an entire culture on greed. There are a million people working on Wall Street who wouldn't have thought twice doing what the exec's at Enron did. In fact a lot of them already have. And we admire it.

Indeed.. Materialism is pretty lame, regardless of the form it takes.