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Fri 7 Dec, 2007 11:06 am
Sex offenders are exposed and even Johns get exposed by how the government has it in law. Shouldnt the government work with the hospitals and clinics to expose all those with uncured sexually transmitted diseases?
Those with that kind of a disease should have to register where they are staying at and/or where they work at so innocent ppl can check out whether or not the person they are about to have consentual sex with has an uncured sexually transmitted disease. Doesn't anybody deserve a government that works for the saftey of it's citizens on this big ass epidemic at hand? What do you think on this?
And if you're a God believer God aint going to help expose those who got who knows what for you. That's Busma's stand. Are you in good hands?
I'm in wonderful hands -- but I still don't want to expose people's personal medical issues for, well, what exactly? So we can slap a scarlet letter on them?
Condoms do a bang-up (pun only slightly intended) job of preventing a lot of STDs from being spread. Not all, but they do work. What of the child who gets HIV through mother's milk? Or the patient who contracts it via blood transfusion? Or the wife who gets genital herpes because her husband was unfaithful to her?
Those people would be thrown into the same bucket. You honestly think they won't be discriminated against? Honestly think no one will throw a rock in their windows or deny them a loan application or keep them from getting a job?
Wacky concepts: how about just pushing people to be, I dunno, responsible on their own? To use condoms? To put off sex until they're mature enough to actually engage in it? To get tested? To actually be a little choosy when selecting a partner?
As for people who are infected and deliberately go out infecting others, fortunately that group of psychopaths isn't very large. And there's plenty of tort law around to handle that, without dipping into medical files and splashing that information out there and shouting it from the rooftops. There is such a thing as a physician-patient privilege, and it makes it possible for people to speak with their doctors about their symptoms and work to treat or even cure them. If reporting to your doctor that you've got lesions and fatigue means your HIV is going to be the featured story on the Six O'Clock News, most people's reaction is simply to not go to the doctor's. Then your purpose is flaunted anyway, except instead of those people potentially living 10 or more years with a drug cocktail, they die in about 18 months, with no relief from modern medicine, their families going back to using euphemisms such "a long illness" to describe in the obituary what really happened to their loved ones.
Leave the scarlet letters to the dustbin of history. Sick people don't deserve that kind of treatment.
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