[Vision2020] The risk of avoiding the truth....

[Tony]

Nick, as I pointed out to Keely, I do not single out any one group for criticism with regard to risky behaviors.  The reason I specified the homosexual community in that particular posting was because it was in response to another message that dealt with that group and the behavior in question.  It is unfair and presumptuous to accuse others of bigotry and discrimination when they are only attempting to minimize the effect of a deadly plague through education.  I feel that pandering to any group and condoning if not championing certain ill advised activities in an effort to avoid seeming "intolerant" will only enable risk.

But go ahead and feel morally superior if it appeals to you.

Best,  -T
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nick Gier 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:15 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Sex Health Risks


  Greetings:

  For the upteenth time, I would like to remind our dear readers that millions of heterosexuals practice sex in ways that make them vulnerable to infection.  Why, except for reasons of bigotry and discrimination, are gay men singled out for censure????

  Nick Gier, intolerista par excellence

  Intolerance is a virtue when one is intolerant of bigotry, discrimination, dishonesty, name calling, etc. , etc., etc.

  "Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to human affairs."
  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  "Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
   --Mohandas Gandhi

  "Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." --Max Planck

  Nicholas F. Gier
  Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
  1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843
  http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm
  208-882-9212/FAX 885-8950
  President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
  http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm





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