From: Samantha (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 23:40:19 MDT
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 11:28 am, matus@matus1976.com wrote:
> I am still not seeing how or why you hold Michael Fumento morally
> culpable for all those deaths? Did you read this book? I havent,
> but reading comments on it I think you misjudged its content.
I began his book but could not finish it quite some years ago. I
have read additional excerpts from it.
> Please explain your line of reasoning that holds Fumento direclty
> morally culpable for any deaths in Africa from AIDS. Was he over
> there plunging used needles into people, and forcing idiots with
> AIDS to rape virgins?
No. He was busy insisting that AIDS was a non-heterosexual problem
and thus lending sanction to those who chose to ignore it as a "gay
problem" and even "the wrath of God" instead of doing very much about
it. The result, of course not limited to him, was many millions of
needless deaths and seriously compromised health of millions more.
He wrote what he wrote despite the evidence that AIDS does not only
pick on gay men or only visit those who engage in certain forms of
sex and those who use needles. In short he did highly slanted and
inflammatory reporting of a hot topic like many others. I hold
supposed intellectuals who twist the truth responsible for the
consequences of being believed. He is certainly not the only one.
But it will take a lot for me to trust him and his arguments about
anything now. He has an image as the naysayer who bucks the tide to
support.
>Shall we blame him, and not the people who
> actually committ these heinous acts, or the corrupt tyrannical
> governments and warring fanctions that keep the people in africa
> ignorant, poor, unhealthy, and superstitious?
>
I did not say the blame was his alone. But the blame is most
certainly partially his. And the problem is not restricted to
Africa or to regimes we abhor or to those who commit any sort of
heinous act at all or their victims. AIDS is a disease, not a moral
reproach.
- samantha
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