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08-22-2008, 10:27 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  If you were diagnosed with HIV would you continue your higher education ?
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If you were diagnosed with HIV would you continue your higher education ? I would have serious doubts about spending what little time I had left in academics.
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08-22-2008, 10:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | | I would. Living the life normally is exactly what I'd do if I got HIV. |
08-22-2008, 10:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: DC | | | Modern medicine can pretty much stop HIV if you can afford the drugs. Look at Magic Johnson. He's lived with HIV for what, 17+ years? |
08-22-2008, 10:32 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | from all I've read and seen, "little time left" is likely inaccurate. There are folks that have lived with it for 20 years or more. I'd definitely continue higher ed.
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08-22-2008, 10:33 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | Yes, and maybe go into scientific research if I can. |
08-22-2008, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | If I got HIV, that would mean my lower education failed me so............I'd probably give up the education thing and go fishing. |
08-22-2008, 10:38 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | If I was diagnosed with HIV, that means I've been screwing around way too much during college. Anyone with a decent set of morals should be able to avoid STDs. |
08-22-2008, 10:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phat Ham Modern medicine can pretty much stop HIV if you can afford the drugs. | Yep. I think MM needs to do better background checks for his pseudo-philosophical one-liner-posts. May I suggest "aggressive brain tumour", it's the new HIV.
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08-22-2008, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Sig Saucer If I was diagnosed with HIV, that means I've been screwing around way too much during college. Anyone with a decent set of morals should be able to avoid STDs. | well HIV can be contracted through more ways than sex. HIV cannot always be detected in donated blood and recipients of transfusions can be infected. The probability is low, but it is still there. |
08-22-2008, 11:06 AM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phat Ham well HIV can be contracted through more ways than sex. HIV cannot always be detected in donated blood and recipients of transfusions can be infected. The probability is low, but it is still there. | True, then of course a person would be stigmatized by the same sort of thinking in the post you replied to. 
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Originally Posted by machine gewehr I happened to have a better experience, a peegasm. | |
08-22-2008, 11:08 AM
| | | | You can live for years with HIV, and why would I want to give up something I enjoy?
Stupid question, IMO. |
08-22-2008, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Sig Saucer If I was diagnosed with HIV, that means I've been screwing around way too much during college. Anyone with a decent set of morals should be able to avoid STDs. | That's a pretty bold statement. Who is the arbiter of decency and morals?
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08-22-2008, 11:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | HIV is no longer a death sentence like it used to be. I would see no reason to stop my education.
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08-22-2008, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | Nope.. Time to get back to basics when something of that power happens in your life. Someone is trying to wake you up.. time to make some changes. |
08-22-2008, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sig Saucer If I was diagnosed with HIV, that means I've been screwing around way too much during college. Anyone with a decent set of morals should be able to avoid STDs. |
you're 16?
haven't been to college, have you?
what are morals?
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08-22-2008, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Sig Saucer If I was diagnosed with HIV, that means I've been screwing around way too much during college. Anyone with a decent set of morals should be able to avoid STDs. | How about healthcare providers who get it from needlesticks/blood exposure? Little kids who get it from their infected mothers through being born? A devoted significant other who catches it from his/her partner who has been cheating unprotected?
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08-22-2008, 11:23 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | Not yet, but I'm dual enrolling at Community College full time, so I'm pretty much going to be in college for the next year.
Morals are the modes of conduct that are taught and accepted as embodying principles of right and good. |
08-22-2008, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sig Saucer Not yet, but I'm dual enrolling at Community College full time, so I'm pretty much going to be in college for the next year.
Morals are the modes of conduct that are taught and accepted as embodying principles of right and good. | see, thass the problem right there....
fwiw, i kinda thought that way as well when i was 16 .
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08-22-2008, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by baba That's a pretty bold statement. Who is the arbiter of decency and morals? | It seems to me that everyone should be the arbiter of their own morals, even a 16 year old. Drawing the line at unprotected sex or sharing needles is a fairly low and simple standard don't you think?? You don't catch HIV from someone sneezing on you. If you get it from the hospital, you'll own the hospital, then you can take your education at your own pace  |
08-22-2008, 11:52 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker It seems to me that everyone should be the arbiter of their own morals, even a 16 year old. Drawing the line at unprotected sex or sharing needles is a fairly low and simple standard don't you think?? You don't catch HIV from someone sneezing on you. If you get it from the hospital, you'll own the hospital, then you can take your education at your own pace | In the context of his statement, it seems he is suggesting that anyone who gets STDs is immoral. That's just silly. We all know countless friends and family who screwed around in college and threw caution to the wind, but are moral in our own personal view and even mainstream society's.
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