Comments | boywhocantsayno: Another full weekend.

boywhocantsayno

Another full weekend.

Apr 12, 2009 22:06

I had another full weekend this weekend (but then again, when don't I?). I guess I'll start with Friday...

This is going to be mega-long, so I'll use cuts.

( Score one for good planning. Which, of course, I didn't exhibit... )

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Comments 7

icedrake April 13 2009, 03:59:11 UTC

This is an interesting interpretation of the Amazon debacle.

Also, waiting to hear from you while you, presumably, are waiting to hear from the third party you'd mentioned :)

boywhocantsayno April 13 2009, 04:02:57 UTC

I saw that post - I'm not sure how much stock to put in that theory, but it's interesting.

And yes, I'm still waiting to hear back. I assume that he was with family for Easter.

gurudata April 14 2009, 01:56:51 UTC

Hiho,

FYI, I just read that amazon has reinstated the ratings and issued an apology.

CU,
Andrew

marahsk April 16 2009, 03:17:25 UTC

"If you were rejected every time you disclosed, would you?"

Tough fucking shit. The fact that some people are selfish assholes doesn't make it OK. I think that knowingly infecting someone with a deadly disease is criminally negligent homicide.

Find someone else who's infected, or who is willing to take the risk, and have all the sex you want.

It's illegal to fail to stop after a car accident--you're required to suck it up and take responsibility, and that's for something you didn't mean to do.

monogamy, expressed through marriage, is the best way of preventing STDsYeah, STDs can't actually tell whether or not you're married or monogamous. It's actually abstinence that is the best way of preventing STDs. A closed relationship (married or not, monogamous or poly) between people who you know are clean is mostly safe. Not sleeping with people until you know them well enough to have some idea of whether or not they are the sort of selfish asshole who cares more about getting his rocks off than you *dying* is a good idea. Or, failing ( ... )

boywhocantsayno April 16 2009, 20:48:59 UTC

I think that knowingly infecting someone with a deadly disease is criminally negligent homicide.

Exactly. I can see an argument for reducing it to aggravated assault should a cure be discovered, but it should still be heavily punished.

Don't we have laws on the books to punish people who knowingly spread diseases like tuberculosis?

It's illegal to fail to stop after a car accident--you're required to suck it up and take responsibility, and that's for something you didn't mean to do.

The problem with not punishing people who spread HIV to the fullest extent of the law is that it will deter people from being tested so that they can claim that they didn't know that they were infected, and that they didn't mean to infect their partner.

The reason I put off being tested for so long was because I was afraid to be. But I'm the guy who once fainted in a doctor's office when he asked if I'd been tested, when I was still a virgin at the time.

Yeah, STDs can't actually tell whether or not you're married or monogamous.It boggles my mind ( ... )

marahsk April 17 2009, 04:07:48 UTC

Exactly. I can see an argument for reducing it to aggravated assault should a cure be discovered, but it should still be heavily punished.

Agreed; it wouldn't (necessarily) be a deadly disease then.

Don't we have laws on the books to punish people who knowingly spread diseases like tuberculosis?

I don't know. If we don't, we should. It's not about sex, or teh evil gay, it's about assault.

The problem with not punishing people who spread HIV to the fullest extent of the law is that it will deter people from being tested so that they can claim that they didn't know that they were infected, and that they didn't mean to infect their partner.

And that would be different from willingly infecting their partner(s)...how? I mean, it wouldn't matter to the partner, who is infected either way. The person who doesn't know he has it wouldn't know to get treatment, and would die sooner, thus infecting fewer people.

The reason I put off being tested for so long was because I was afraid to be. But I'm the guy who once fainted in a doctor's ( ... )

marahsk April 17 2009, 17:16:14 UTC

Oops; I meant to say "collateral damage" rather than "friendly fire,"

And another thing about judging: I don't *judge* you as a person for your choice to bring that guy home, but that doesn't mean that I can't acknowlege the fact that doing so comes with the risk of him stealing your wallet if you leave it around.