24th May 2006, 7:20 PM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticl...ewsNews-10
So there's a vaccine for certain forms of HIV out which is being put up as one of those required to attend school. Aside from the fact that we HAVE A VACCINE FOR CERTAIN FORMS OF HIV, this isn't all that unusual. Lots of schools require innoculations before kids can attend.
Here's the kicker. There are some people who have this odd religious belief that this would be BAD for the kids somehow. Apparently they believe teens would suddenly go on huge orgy sprees without the fear of a sexually transmitted disease (which is still there, this just mitigates it). Evidence that this would happen is notibly absent. They just believe it to be the result of this. Do guard rails on bridges cause drivers to weave back and forth off them like pinballs since they don't have to worry about falling to their deaths? Does the V-Chip suddenly cause kids to watch TV much more frivilously because they know they won't ever encounter violence or swearing?
Stupid stupid stupid... All this does is protect people from something horrid in the event they do decide to have intercourse. How immunity to something can be construed as "encouraging" behavior that exposes someone to it is beyond me... I may gain an immunity to antifreeze, but I'm not going to use that opportunity to take a drink of the stuff just for that sweet sweet taste.
So there's a vaccine for certain forms of HIV out which is being put up as one of those required to attend school. Aside from the fact that we HAVE A VACCINE FOR CERTAIN FORMS OF HIV, this isn't all that unusual. Lots of schools require innoculations before kids can attend.
Here's the kicker. There are some people who have this odd religious belief that this would be BAD for the kids somehow. Apparently they believe teens would suddenly go on huge orgy sprees without the fear of a sexually transmitted disease (which is still there, this just mitigates it). Evidence that this would happen is notibly absent. They just believe it to be the result of this. Do guard rails on bridges cause drivers to weave back and forth off them like pinballs since they don't have to worry about falling to their deaths? Does the V-Chip suddenly cause kids to watch TV much more frivilously because they know they won't ever encounter violence or swearing?
Stupid stupid stupid... All this does is protect people from something horrid in the event they do decide to have intercourse. How immunity to something can be construed as "encouraging" behavior that exposes someone to it is beyond me... I may gain an immunity to antifreeze, but I'm not going to use that opportunity to take a drink of the stuff just for that sweet sweet taste.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)