Amazing
Topic: Human Behaviour
A while back, I read a story in the news about a man that was diagnosed as HIV positive, walking down the street in New York, trying to spit on people in order to infect them. You can't pass AIDS on to someone in this manner, but he thought you could, and because he did think you could and because he tried to do it, he was charged with attempted manslaughter.

Recently, a man robbed a woman, threatening her with a hypodermic needle he claimed was tainted with HIV.

And a ruling has been delayed. The ruling concerns a group of Bulgarian medical professionals that infected 400 Libyan children with the HIV virus (allegedly).

Remember when AIDS first began affecting us, and all the conspiracy theorists* began spouting about how it was developed by The Government (although they never stated which one) as a germ warfare weapon, and they lost control of it? Did you ever start thinking that, whether or not any government had intended to use it as a weapon, that people outside the government, from kids robbing women to doctors supposedly looking for a cure, would misuse the disease? Is this irony? It's hard to tell. The thought's too disgusting to hold for long enough to develop an opinion.

It seems, then, that it's not the government we have to look out for. At least, if they are using it as a weapon, it's under a Hell of a lot more controlled circumstances than a kid with a hypo in a parking lot.** It would be a horrible crime for anyone to use this illness as a weapon. It doesn't matter if it's a government or a guy on the street.

The kid had a Gods-damned hypo that he claimed was filled with HIV. If it really was, what the Hells was he thinking? At least, if he shot himself with a gun, he can get it treated as an out-patient, if he just nicks himself! Even if he shoots himself in the gut, he's got a chance! But if he shoots himself with HIV, then yes, sure, he can go to the hospital; and get tested regularly for 7 years, and then maybe he can think he won't get AIDS, and he won't be able to donate blood, has to warn everyone around him if he gets so much as a bloody nose, and forget about a normal sex life! Even if he never contracts AIDS from shooting himself with the needle, he'd still be better off shooting himself with a handgun, in nearly any non-fatal location.

Unbelievable. Un-freakin'-believable. Even if it was not created as a biological weapon, it's being used as one now. And not necessarily by "the government," but by "the people."

I'm appalled.

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*Pronounced "crack-pots."
**There'd at least be some kind of high-tech aluminum cylinder. A briefcase may also be involved. Would Hollywood lie?

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