AIDS is a bit of a quandry. There will NEVER be a cure found, making it one of the most destructive diseases ever, yet its the easiest to irradicate. STOP having sex with multiple partners! Take the morality issue out of it, and its still good advise. The AIDS virus mutates every time we think we have a cure, and its going to keep doing so.
I fully disagree. There is nothing to show a cure will never be found.
To claim it will be irraticated by moralizing about sex is what is not a cure and is what is impossible - and nonsense.
Even if, as you and Sawyer apparently believe for who knows what reasons - that you can convince everyone to not have sex with anyone unless:
1. you have the other person physically examed to make sure she is a virgin (which I believe neither you nor Sawyer did) or
2.have him take double blind CAT scan polygraph exams - which no one does - for which for the rest of your lives neither of you ever have sex with anyone else even if you break up or one of you dies - then only if another provable virgin is found - and some bizarre belief that everyone (but you) would do that -
oh, and at least quarterly polygraph exams to insure neither of you had sex with someone else nor had any needle stuck in you for any reason - if neither of you can ever have sex with anyone again - not even another virgin -
- even then that would not irraticate AIDS. Nor:
3. and if all gays also died of it or successfully completed gay-cure therapy as Sawyer wishes - and
4. even if everyone agreed to never use a needle again for anything -
5. - exactly none of that ever is going to happen - and
6. it still would not irraticate AIDS.
I understand some people share your and Sawyer's extreme sexual moral codes and extremely restrained sexual life and activities - or just have no sex life and never will, but most people do not. Nor want to. Sex is one of the wonderful things about being an adult.
At its core, where I MOST disagree with Sawyer and you is at the very core of the "morality" claim. I see the extreme limits AIDS puts on sexuality as of itself a horrific harm and lose to people and many levels - from assault victims to accidents, to promiscuous sex, to the severe restrictions "safe" sex puts on intimacy and sexuality. I intensely believe that ANY disease that restricts consentual sex between 2 (or more) people of legal age, that disease a horrific disease that should be irraticated, reduced, controls or a treatment found if anyway possible - regardless of mutation prospects.
Influenza also mutates. It could be limited if everyone wore HEPA filters. Thus, you certainly must INSIST no more research be done on the transmittable disease that probably has killed more people than any other - because all people need to is avoid other people and wear HEPA filters.
Of course, neither you nor Sawyer ever advocate that - and ALWAYS ignore it when brought up - and likely would claim it absurd, people shouldn't have to wear HEPA filter masks and people won't do it anyway.
The distinction is your and his view of "sex sins." Not about the disease. As Sawyer stated in his OP, the goal is to USE AIDS as a deadly punishment force to stop sinful, decadent sex as he sees it.
It IS the moral condemnations against sex that is at the core of your reasoning - for which you fashion unique diversionary excuses that you apply to no other disease that your so-called reasons apply to.
Except for herpes, cures were found for STDs where there used to be no cure. A vaccine or cure for HIV/AIDS is not impossible at all. You just claim it is to argue your view of sexual morality. When cures were found to lethal STDs and none existed, the resulting "free sex" did NOT destroy society. "Free consentual sex" can not destroy society or the human race, can not genocide it. A transmittable disease can.
And for your noting that HIV/AIDS, like all transmittable diseases, mutates, it has to potential to mutate to be transmitted by any fluid passing (kissing, coughing, lack of perfect purifying kitchenware, sneezing, etc.) Your "AIDS" mutants is another reason finding a cure or treatment critical - as another member noted.
Did herpes of the mouth mutate to genital herpes - or the other way around? So could AIDS. If aids does mutate to be more tranmittable (it is now thru eye ducts as example) such as to the mouth and mouth fluids, it could kill everyone on earth. Quickly Or become transmittable by mesquito bites. The next plague to wipe out 1/3rd of all people - or more since people more mobile.
The fact is you could never have sex in your life and never use a needle - and still contract HIV/AIDS never knowing it happened by the end of the week. So could your children. So can anyone.
Make it anything other than a sex-disease in your mind, and you can understand my message.
eace
