Why, don't you believe in the benefits of economic self- interest?

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> >> Wildfire?
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> > The main problem with AIDS is that unlike other virulent epi-
> > demics, like smallpox, it *does not* spread like wildfire. If it
> > did, it would be self-limiting. It would kill all its victims before
> > they had a chance to spread the disease to a significant part
> > of the population. AIDS' long incubation, and asymtomatic in-
> > fectivity ensures the epidemic will continue, until it runs out of
> > all susceptible individuals, which, in the West, means people
> > engaged in non-sterile IV drug use, and unprotected homosex.
>
> Each year it kills fewer people than suicide does.

How about smoking? Nobody cares about the smoker, and his despicable filthy habit. The society's answer to the health risks, and health care costs associated with smoking is increased taxation. IV drug use is slightly higher on our com- passion scale. Promiscuous anal sex is definitely at the top. It seems there is a clear hierarchy of self-destructive behavior :-)

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> Why don't you go worry about that?

I actually don't. As an ex-health-care worker, who almost contracted this dreaded disease from a broken specimen tube, I must say, I really don't care about AIDS, and its victims, and I feel we should just let it burn itself out, how- ever long it will take.

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