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CONVERSATION SHIFT TO AIDS

I've also read that because Africa is lacking in the education department, it is believed in some parts that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS.
(I suppose because she is pure or something like that)
So there's a virgin sex ring of sorts where men pay to have sex with virgins to cure their AIDS.
While infact they are just infecting more women and making more AIDS
I think the biggest thing to helping the "AIDS crisis" would be to educate people.
Make condoms more readily available.
Teach them virgins do not cure AIDS
Things like that.

DT:
Those are some random laws. xD
I should try to research some of the weird ones we've got here.

lol I loved that. Thanks for sharing those laws DT!!!
I wonder if the US has anything like that....

Shifting conversation to aids:
A..ring? Virgin's curing it? Wow...that's terrible actually.
Also, the reason they can't get the education and condoms is b/c of their president I believe. (One of them on one part of africa or something) He refuses to believe that Aid's is spreadable or acknowledge it or something.

i think with disabilities it depends on the kind. For downs and autism i think i'd be ok with it, but if the kid can't move or function i think is the main issue.

i suppose it's to do with mental faculties.

then again it's here that the whle soul belief system comes in. Mainly whether you're disadvantaging the kid by stopping its existaence befor eit begins.
for example if you belive in a soul as unique, intelligent and one-of-a-kind regardless, then you're killing it. BUT if you belive in heaven, then it's having a happy life, right? (or is an unchristened child due for heaven or hell?)- you see, beliefs.
Whereas if you belive in reincarnation, in a way you're kind of doing the kid a favour, since it's soul will just pass on into another, possibly more helathy, body - and you've doen this before it becoems self aware, so no harm no foul.
But coversely, a life form is a life from. Whether the kid had the mental faculties of a sea-slug shoudlnt' matter. living is living and it enjoys itself in whatever way. BUT if it's in pain its entire life is this cruel? is the burden on the parents cruel?
Or if you have a certain belief system in karma, perhaps you think the child must to be born and suffer whatever it's given to, because this is karmic retribution for a past life's evils and will be cleaning, allowing teh kid to have a happier next life.


you see? it's so bloody up for discussion in all areas this is why i belive the only decision to be made has to be with teh mother and her beliefs.

in the end, the baby doesn't know any better. The one thing that isn't suffering is the aborted baby - cos it's dead.
(unless you belive it's going to hell of course. in that case, sucks to be the foetus i guess. but coversely, even in hell the baby grows up knowing anything else, so it doesn't even have a perception of what's normal.)


ooh, as insensitive as that sounds, that's a frikkin' great idea for a story. That 'true' new generation demons are unbaptised babies and children who grew up in hell knowing nothing else, and so turned into evil monsters because that's the norm.
*scribble scribble*
That makes so much sense and fills the gap of why even dead adult huamsnw oudl turn into demons - sicne no one loses ALL humanity. But the babies had no knowledge humanity to begin with so were perfect tools to be raised and grafted into servants.
*brainstorm*

-ahem-
sorry.

though i'm sure if i said that to some fundamentalist groups they'd take it up. That's make for interesting rpotest signs: 'don't abort, it supplies hell with demons'

i agree - it's where it's not used with responsibility and gravity where there's a problem.
that's what teh morning after pill's for anyways