AIDS Relief and Moral Myopia
25th June 2009
As with most discussions of AIDS and HIV, this proceeds on the assumption that HIV is just something that happens to people, like the common cold. Nowhere is mentioned the irrefutable fact that people who keep their pants zipped just don’t get HIV, period — aside from the miniscule number who contract it from extraordinary circumstances like rape or transfusions, of course. (And it oughtn’t to be necessary to make that reservation but there’s always some nimrod who brings it up in the hopes that there’s somebody else in the room whose two-digit IQ is lower than his. Sheesh.)