More items on AIDS, the all-purpose, all-political, all-symbolizing disease:
- Michael Fumento points out how grossly overrated and overfunded AIDS is as an American health problem: When Is Enough Enough?
- Meanwhile, Cardinal Trujillo makes another obvious point, that defending normal attitudes, standards and expectations is a much more effective way to fight AIDS than the doomed and inhuman attempt to technologize sex. The Cardinal mentions Uganda and the Philippines as examples of what can be done.
- Human rights types have more important things to worry about than saving lives, even millions of lives. What, after all, is life—especially the lives of other people far away—if you can’t do what you want when you want? Perhaps with such considerations at work, the abortion lobby is using AIDS as a tool in its campaign to reduce sex to a matter of pure technology, with all tastes and practices recognized as equally valid as long as they’re done in the way non-judgmental experts advise. If there’s something you want above all else, then everything becomes grist for the mill.