For an analogy, if I give you a gun and say it is not loaded and the safety is on. Will you blindly believe me or will you check the safety and the magazine for yourself?
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Replying to @galev_ph
If a city is 99% covered with metal rooftops but I walk outside with a loaded gun and fire into the air fully knowing there’s a 1% chance to kill someone, what’s a reasonable punishment: A slap on the wrist or to be removed from society?
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I am not looking at it from the moral, ethical, jurisdicional perspective. I am just providing the pragmatical health care background to consider.
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Replying to @galev_ph
Yup. And I get that. But this means attempted murder of the sick has been downgraded.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I get it. And that sounds bad. I am hesitant on giving more opinion without knowing the full law and the legal environment, and forgive me if I am not going to read it all ^^ But on a bit of a tangent, I think the problem is the moralized stigma on HIV specifically.
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Replying to @galev_ph @TheBrometheus
Let's say the patient has ebola and goes on a kissing spree. How would the law deal with that?
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Replying to @galev_ph
Ebola isn’t a widespread illness that infected the blood supply before being caught, an Ebola is now curable.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @galev_ph
If people die from reckless behaviors we tend to charge with manslaughter. A felony.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @galev_ph
This law specifically downgrades that penalty for HIV only to the level of a misdemeanor, which in America can mean shoplifting or getting in a fistfight.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
(For the ecord, ebola is not curable, however HIV treatment has advance a great deal, though it is expensive.) If the law discriminates HIV and other similar diseases (eg Hepatitis) in such way, I think that is bad regulation both from public health and justice perspective.
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Yes, when they passed this law they said they specifically did it to decrease the stigma of HIV. In doing so they removed standard protections that would be levied against similar diseases and actions. They also created a small gap for malicious people to safely hurt others.
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