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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But go ahead and feel morally superior if it
appeals to you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best, -T</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ngier@uidaho.edu href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu">Nick Gier</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Sex Health
Risks</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Greetings:<BR><BR>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????<BR><BR>Nick Gier,
intolerista par excellence<BR><BR>Intolerance is a virtue when one is
intolerant of bigotry, discrimination, dishonesty, name calling, etc. , etc.,
etc.<BR><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP><FONT size=2>"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the
application of it to human affairs."<BR>--Ralph Waldo Emerson<BR><BR>"Abstract
truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by
proving their readiness to die for it."<BR> --Mohandas
Gandhi<BR><BR>"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." --Ma</FONT><FONT
size=1>x Planck<BR><BR></FONT>Nicholas F. Gier<BR>Professor Emeritus,
Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho<BR>1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID
83843<BR><A href="http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm"
eudora="autourl">http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm</A><BR>208-882-9212/FAX
885-8950<BR>President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO<BR><A
href="http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm"
eudora="autourl">http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm</A><BR><BR>
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