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You think people should be sympathetic in the case that somebody chooses to put their health at risk via infection, just because the perpetrator is gay? Somebo
by anjc 10y ago
You think people should be sympathetic in the case that somebody chooses to put their health at risk via infection, just because the perpetrator is gay?
Somebody has faulty reasoning here and it's not the poster you replied too.
- foldr 10y agoNever thought I'd agree with yummyfajitas on anything, but you are missing his point entirely. Statistically, gay men are more likely to be HIV+ than the general population. Thus if a gay couple who were having safe sex in your apartment left behind lots of used condoms, there would statistically be a higher probability that those condoms contained HIV+ semen than with a couple chosen at random from the whole population. It has nothing to do with people deliberately engaging in risky behavior. For the sake of argument, we might say that the HIV+ person in the couple contracted HIV as the result of a date rape. (Not that I in any way endorse your judgmental suggestion that most people who get HIV somehow deserve it.)
- anjc 10y agoWell it's difficult to assess something like this as a matter of probabilities and generalisations. It's completely rational to be more wary of your health when dealing with the refuse of a brothel (be it gay or not) versus dealing with the refuse of, say, your teenage son/brother/friend/whatever.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIt's similarly rational to be more wary of your health when dealing with the refuse of a normal (non-prostitute) gay man. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5937a2.htm?s_cid=mm5937a2_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5937a2.htm?s_cid... Consider a comparable headline: "My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up bathhouse, because my gay renter had gay sex with a man he met on the gay app Grindr." Would this headline be deserving of a similar level of sympathy/moral weight/etc?
- anjc 10y agoA person underhandedly uses somebody else's house as a gay bathhouse and the owner's upset that they have to clean up after the men? Yeah I think it's ok to be sympathetic to that situation... You're not going to make me change my viewpoint by making it about gay people
- yummyfajitas 10y agoGlad to know you don't consider it acceptable for a gay person to rent a flat on AirBnB and then have gay sex in the room he rented. I think most of us don't actually think that's a bad thing.
- anjc 10y agoBro if you will happily clean up the sweat, spit, blood and semen of people who use your house as a brothel or bathhouse then maybe there's an app idea in there for ya. Most people would not be happy doing that.
- foldr 10y agoIndeed, which is why most people should not rent their apartments on AirBNB.
- anjc 10y agoI'll just hire yummyfajitas to stand outside with a mop and disinfectant, using my cut of the illicit proceeds. Let's hope no cops are watchin ;)
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoMost of that is present in a hotel room regardless of the 'brothel' angle. Its what hotel cleaning crews deal with every day. Lets admit it, its the moral angle that's getting folks all spun up.