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In article <1aof1bINNenk@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU writes:
> In article <1992Oct4.202705.1254@jack.sns.com> jsb@jack.sns.com (Jim Best) writes:
> >Sent to me by a friend for posting.
> >
> >By Mike Barnicle;
> >        It's the other aspect of the tale that is tragic. Johnson is a
> >college graduate with great physical and financial resources who must have
> >been the only man alive unaware of the fact that you might get AIDS if you
> >go around having sex with a couple hundred different people in various
> >cities.
> 
> No he is not the only one.  People in general think they are safe becuase
> they are not 'gay' or drug users.  Well everyday now we see that this is
> not true.  Anyone and everyone can contract the condition of AIDS.

Yes, "anyone and everyone" CAN contract AIDS, but only in the sense
that "anyone and everyone" CAN get killed by lightning -- but people
that play tennis with aluminum rackets in electrical storms are 
at substantially greater risk than those people that move indoors
when the lightning starts.

Most people have enough sense, or morals, to not engage in casual
sex with hundreds of different partners, and to not abuse IV drugs.
Magic Johnson is that relatively rare phenomenon, a straight person
as promiscuous as the average homosexual, and it is not surprising
that he got AIDS.

Yes, there are people who do everything right, and get AIDS.  Infected
by sloppy homosexual dentists, or a blood transfusion (and the blood
supply still cares about 1:60,000 risk per unit of blood of causing
AIDS).  There are women out there with the misfortune to marry 
someone like Magic Johnson, and suffer the consequences.  But those
are quite exceptional in America.

> >        Here we have a guy who put his wife at risk of infection as well as
> >his baby. Yet instead of being labeled a moron, he is called a hero.
> 
> All within the mythos that he has been taught.  It is a matter of blaming

WHAT mythos?  You mean the liberal notion: "If it feels good, do it?"

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