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Irrational, but you're not the only one. There are some gay men who deliberately want to infect themselves with HIV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing h
by mahmud 16y ago
Irrational, but you're not the only one.
There are some gay men who deliberately want to infect themselves with HIV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing
- glhaynes 16y agoThat's quite a bit different, I'd say...
- mahmud 16y agoHow is that different? Either way, we have someone wishing for a handicap. Just because one can actually fulfill his wishes while the other can't is immaterial; in either situation, we have someone brainwashed by media/society/interwebs/himself to think those afflicted are better off than he is.
- glhaynes 16y agoThere are many who would say that people with Asperger's aren't just "disabled", but — to use that usually-awful "PC" term but I think it's appropriate in this case — differently-abled; and, thus that our society is richer for having people with Asperger's. This is, of course, a complicated subject. I think there are few without pathological issues that wouldn't be happy to see HIV/AIDS vanish: it doesn't do anybody any good... it kills people. If we had a button we could push to fix HIV, I think we'd all push it. But if I had a button that would "fix" (even to say that feels offensive to me, read the scare-quotes as very strong ones) Asperger's, I'd certainly be far more hesitant to push it. Anyway, I certainly understand your analogy. And if I had a child on the way, I'd hope they didn't have Asperger's, or any other syndrome.
- nnash 16y agoWait... Did you just compare being HIV positive to a handicap?As in something you get your own parking spot for?
- rick888 16y agono..handicap..as in a deficient immune system that gives you a distinct disadvantage at life.
- zbanks 16y agoThose are not the kind of bugs I'm used to searching for...