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On a politically correct note | by crash_ | 2002-07-12 06:40:42 |
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Just wondering... | by nin_man | 2002-07-12 06:45:17 |
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New babies have always been... | by Sehmket | 2002-07-12 06:51:06 |
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Since when was having a social disease | by xti | 2002-07-12 09:53:23 |
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Herpes Henrietta? | by nin_man | 2002-07-12 10:14:23 |
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Dude, give it up. | by JPaganel | 2002-07-12 10:35:00 |
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by xti |
2002-07-12 11:11:33 |
I was never in the woodwork. I don't hide in the shadows to whisper nonsense to innocents; I'm too much a conservative for that.
I'm not a "dude" (I can ride a horse, thanks,) and I won't give it up. So long as liberals are applauded for speaking nonsense, I will do my damnedest to counter them with rationality. No, what I have to say isn't nice, which is what makes it so loathesome to others. But there's no nice way to combat a philosophy that places the appearance of "niceness" above the practicalities of the real world.
It's not nice that HIV positive kids are ostracized. Well, it's not nice that HIV positive kids exist. But instead of promoting a program that tells adults "KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS!", that teaches adults proper hygene, that passes judgement on adults who don't act responsibily, it teaches kids just to accept other, infected kids, which *isn't* going to do a thing to end the disease in the first place. And at least in a few cases, is going to infect other kids.
We didn't defeat TB in the U.S. with acceptance; we didn't defeat smallpox with acceptance... we fought the diseases, and did what was necessary to defeat them, including quarantine. We didn't teach people to 'accept' it as an alternative lifestyle.
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So what should Sesame Street do then? | by YakkoWarner | 2002-07-12 11:20:00 |
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Don't deal with the issue at all | by xti | 2002-07-12 12:15:25 |
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Their problem ... | by cristobal | 2002-07-12 12:34:53 |
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Try to become somewhat literate | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:19:43 |
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What flavor crack are you smoking? | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 13:28:57 |
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And when Tommy's dad says | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:35:19 |
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The REASON that education is | by Naruki | 2002-07-12 13:39:29 |
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And it's people like Tommy's dad | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 14:07:16 |
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To make it plainer and less | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:29:49 |
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Apparently, you are not rational enough | by JPaganel | 2002-07-12 11:20:31 |
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TB patients were quarantined which | by xti | 2002-07-12 12:01:50 |
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TB is a little different... | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 12:17:16 |
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Argh. | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 12:18:04 |
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With a 40% infection percentage | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:10:08 |
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Can't be done. | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 13:23:41 |
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Well, they couldn't quarantine every | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:27:43 |
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I considered it a moot point | by Arcanum | 2002-07-12 13:37:38 |
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How do you propose to quarantine... | by HadEnuf | 2002-07-12 19:06:02 |
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Wow, what a comeback! | by JPaganel | 2002-07-12 13:16:53 |
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That's probably what happened | by xti | 2002-07-12 13:23:26 |
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Oh stop, you give us equestrians a bad name (n/t) | by crash_ | 2002-07-12 11:54:57 |
