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Originally Posted by calculoso
Don't want to get in the middle of this... but...
I was watching a special on CBC the other day about the AIDS crisis in Africa.
They interviewed a few HIV+ men in Africa and at least one of them knowingly and consciously had unprotected sex, spreading HIV. His rational? Well, I already have it, so what do I have to fear from getting it again?
He didn't appear to have any concept of "what if I give it to someone else". His only concern was himself.
Shocking, but I bet he's not alone in that thinking - in Africa or elsewhere in the world.
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Again, I'm not arguing that that isn't the case. I'm sure it is. I'm also sure if you said to someone who's entire exisience is devoted to sustaining their own lives in their mudhuts that a virus spread through sexual intercourse is ravaging millions on their continent, they'd look at you cross-eyed. The african population as a whole does not have the capacity to debate various forms of birth control, not because they don't have the capacity to learn, but because this information is so staggering that it's simply incomprehensible.
The point is, the catholic church is contributing directly to the aids problem that they are also valiantly trying to help. I have great admiration for the work the catholic church does in the poorest regions of the world. Contrary to many of the replies in this thread, I'm not out to attack catholicism in some great encompassing crusade, I merely pointed out in a thread regarding religious extremism how that extremism can be very hurtful to select populations who really have no alternative but to accept the words and care of the organizations that they have learned to expect are acting in their best interest.