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11.20.2005    |    Rent this
The latest fad isn't quite so recent. It's Rent, about to be released in a "hey-let's celebrate people who kill themselves with sex and drugs and then moan about how unfair life is" movie. Sort of like a hipper "Angels in America", another celebration of depravity, all dressed up as treacly compassion.

The problem with these we-love-AIDS epics isn't that we shouldn't have pity on people who suffer. But here's the thing: we all suffer. What is missing from this cultural phenomenon is much sense of personal responsibility. As in, you stick your dingus where it doesn't belong, or do drugs, you just might reap the benefits of an early death. But you'll be blessed, don't you see, because you'll be among today's favored "victim" groups.

The horrible truth about AIDS is that it would not propogate if two things took place: there was no homosexual sex, and no intravenous drug use. I realize that these things are not likely to happen anytime soon. But that's the harsh truth.

Well, there's always a silver lining: at least, if you get AIDS, in its final stages, you'll be as thin as you always wanted to be.

posted by Jack Rich at 5:37 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger JuicyFruit said...

You really believe that the proper punishment for unprotected sex is the horrid punishment of AIDS?
Do you think that children born with AIDS deserve to die of AIDS? What about those who seek to knowingly infect others? I think you need to really think about what you just said about the scourge that affect $80 million people across the globe. No one deserves to die that way

9:06 PM  

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I was born, grew up, and went to school in the Bronx, New York -- on the wrong side of the tracks. Got the chance to go to college, so instead of joining the NYPD (the obvious career choice at that time and place), I became an engineer. Spent some years designing things that go boom (or things that take things that go boom to their destinations...), principally for our military. Also took an interesting career turn and for some years was in charge of counter-terrorism for my agency...so I learned something about guns. And when to use them.

I am a believer, in God. Christian. My opinion of most denominations is that they seem to be more concerned with the collection plate and devising intricate rules as to who is in and who is out.

My politics are a mix of conservative and libertarian, as in live and let live. With one exception, I favor small government, maximum personal freedom, coupled with personal responsibility and accountability for one's actions. I also know that there are, and have always been, things that are true, and things that are not. Two problems: Being smart enough to know which is which, and having the guts to act on it. I make no claims...

The exception to small government? I favor a robust national defense, against enemies foreign, and domestic. Or, as Teddy Roosevelt should have said, "speak softly and carry a whole bunch of armored divisions."

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