Poll: AIDS, it could be eradicated but human rights would need to be sacrificed.

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martin's a madman

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AIDS is one of the worst diseases to affect humans and currently incurable. What if we did not need to cure it, but simply let it go away on its own? The only way to contract HIV which leads to aids is contact with people who do have it. A simple answer could be, let the people who have HIV/AIDS die.

I am speaking about a mass campaign of testing, quarantine and letting the people who have it finish off their lives without spreading the disease to the uninfected. This could potentially rid human beings of the virus. But, it obviously would involve a lapse in human rights to solve our problems. This idea is pretty unlikely because it involves co-operation of any nation that has anyone with HIV/AIDs living within it. We would obviously have to choose a neutral place for all these people to live and eventually die. I am pretty sure the current number is about 38 million people infected.

This could be the answer to the problem, however unlikely it may be. What do you think about sacrificing some human lives for the sake of the whole? Some human rights violations that would occur are; lack of privacy with all citizens having to be tested for the Virus, Moving the infected from their chosen countries, homes, and families, disallowing breeding within the people and eventually letting them all die. I think I may write a story using this idea sometime in the future. I would like to know how you feel about this,

Note: I am not suggesting this is what should happen.
 

Bulletinmybrain

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It is impossible.

To many lives would be lost and its not 100% fullproof. Plus. Monkeys can still spread it.
 

IceStar100

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No I truely belivie it would end up like something from Irobot. We might be safer are have a long life but the value of life would be less. What the point of living to be 100 when you wish you where dead everyday.
 

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APPCRASH said:
You cant stop it. The world just wants to have our plastic.
LMAO. Classic George Carlin!

I don't think it's justified. I see it as population control. I know it sounds bad, but there's way too many of us.
 

ae86gamer

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Even if it did happen it wouldn't be 100% foolproof. It would still find a way to spread.
 

martin's a madman

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That depends, if the world governments were able to co-operate which is very unlikely like I mentioned, then it is possible to keep it from spreading.
 

Beefcakes

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APPCRASH said:
You cant stop it. The world just wants to have our plastic.
Ah Mr Carlin, I see we found another fan, no?
But, AIDS is just another disease, we will cure it eventually, and if not, we were never meant to.
Its just the Earth shaking us off like another bad case of fleas
 

Flishiz

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Yeah, cuz, we got a whole buncha money these days and no idea how to spend it, and an army to rival North Korea's each with an advanced degree in medical procedure.

As much as you are theoretically right, practically, there'd be a lot more to sacrifice in order to get the campaign of yours going.
 

Neonbob

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goatzilla8463 said:
You could cull all people with AIDs.

But that really would be a breach of human rights.
So...you're happy with it, right?
APPCRASH said:
You cant stop it. The world just wants to have our plastic.
You win the thread. Thank you for bringing the mind of Carlin to this place!
My personal response is an overwhelming "meh"
I don't care enough to think about the colossal amount of effort that would be needed to follow through with this plan.
 

Avaholic03

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? As long as it didn't turn into a Resident Evil style apocalypse scenario, I don't see why limited human experimentation shouldn't be used to help millions. Why not use those death row and multiple life sentence convicts? That solves not only the disease problem, but prison overcrowding as well. And it limits the ethical impacts, because they were going to die soon anyways.
 

j1nx

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Or we can just place em all in the same spot.
I hear Molokai has some good opportunity's.
 

martin's a madman

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Flishiz said:
Yeah, cuz, we got a whole buncha money these days and no idea how to spend it, and an army to rival North Korea's each with an advanced degree in medical procedure.

As much as you are theoretically right, practically, there'd be a lot more to sacrifice in order to get the campaign of yours going.
Not my campaign, just an idea I had that might be turned into a story. I'm not suggesting we start this tommorow.