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That's missing the point, if you want a law to punish people for transmitting a disease intentionally, that's as specific as you need to get. The magnitude of t
by codezero 5y ago
That's missing the point, if you want a law to punish people for transmitting a disease intentionally, that's as specific as you need to get. The magnitude of the consequences for this law wrt HIV infection is also likely higher than would be applied to a general infection because of the paranoia/homophobia at the time of its writing.
So sure, go write a new law and make sure it covers a broad set of things without singling out a specific group that is already marginalized.
- at_a_remove 5y agoI disagree. We have all transmitted diseases. And "intentionally" gets pretty interesting -- how many times have we come in to work sick because we haven't enough sick days? The magnitude of the effect of the disease is what is important. A cold? Well, it happens. HIV ... not so much.
- codezero 5y agoContext here in the thread was deadly diseases.