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People on this thread are going around in circles arguing that:
1 - they are entitled to my taxes/insurance paying their expenses with PrEP, because they don't feel like using condoms.
2 - thinking it's reasonable, going around spreading all pretty kinds of STDs (that PrEP doesn't protect from) yet again, because they don't feel like wearing condoms.
Contracting HIV with unprotected sex is difficult (1/1000 for vaginal sex and insertive anal sex, 1/71 for receiving anal sex - all numbers for unprotected sex) [1], breaking a condom is also difficult (4% cases in anal sex between gay men - which is the higher number [2]). Meaning that contracting HIV while wearing a condom, is extremely difficult (0.05% in the worst hypothesis).
It's up to you then, to prove that PrEP is more efficient than 99.95% of times (while still disregarding that unlike condoms, PrEP doesn't protect you in any way from other STDs... yes, those STDs that people not using condoms and that think they are entitled to have other tax/insurance payers providing PrEP for them, are spreading around).
[1] https://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-ri... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27227161
1st) PrEP solely protects against HIV. It doesn't protect against any other kind of STDs whatsoever. What is your solution here really?
2nd) Has it was clearly stated, I claimed it was your personal responsibility if you contracted STDs for not using protection "when you should". In case it's not clear, example of situations where you should use condoms: When you pick up someone for a one night stand in a bar for instance. Yet you decided to construct a strawmen of marital infidelity to go on with your point.
Also, you do realize that absolutely all that I said, applies exactly the same to any sexual preference, right?
But of course, at the lack of any real argument against what I said, all that people like you can do, is to pull out some imaginary victim card.
Here is an idea for you, stop playing the victim and take some responsibility for your actions.
Can't understand why you need PrEP unless you or your husband have unprotected sex outside marriage. That's the personal responsibility needed for both you and your husband: not having unprotected sex with other partners.
Again, can't see why the state or the other people paying their health insurances should have to pay for your preferences when it comes to use a condom. Nobody likes to use condoms... yet, responsible people, do.
That depends if it's those people bearing the full cost of buying PrEP, or if they expect the state/insurance companies to do it for them.
It's a matter of having some sense of personal responsibility really.
Why are we expected to put the line at religion when "berating" someone's beliefs?
The article in the human rights declaration defending the individual freedom to a particular religion and a political view is exactly the same. Therefore I expect the exact same treatment to be applied in both cases. It's you that should explain how do you see one having special status over the other.
Would you defend a professor berating in front of the class someone exposing the views of their minoritary religion?
Now, after working all their life, they can afford some middle range vacations every year.
This is what people that take responsibility for their life do, I guess, so I can't see any problem with 28% of people not being able to afford something that is basically a luxury.
The 2 different cases the autor of the article tries to mix here are:
1 - People born poor normally have much more difficulty in reaching the highest economical levels of society.
2 - People born poor cannot reach an economical level above poverty, even if they put a fair amount of effort in it.
The author (and many people discussing the subject) usually try to mix no 1 with no 2 in order to write these kind of articles and cause indignation about a false premise.
Can't get my head around lisp/clojure.
We always did eat very healthy at home. First because my parents saw that as one of the priorities (they never went to dinner out, lunch out, even coffee out in my early years, since they couldn't afford that lifestyle and keep their finances in a proper state... I guess the only luxury we had was having a dog - for which I am very grateful), second because they would take the time and effort to prepare a proper meal (yes, even after arriving home from working all day in their physically demanding jobs) and the ingredients to a healthy meal are cheap, but it takes effort to put that kind of meal together.
All this happened in what is today a somewhat rich western European country.
It really bothers me (and I guess other people like me), this culture of constantly dismissing people lack of self responsibility. In the EU (and I would go as far as saying, in the all 1st world), if you are willing to work and to watch how you spend your money (and this means closely, no 5$ latte like another article today just talks about, or ordering pizza because you don't want to prepare dinner), anyone can end up having a comfortable life.
Why does it matter their percentage of the world population? Are you defending that we should reward nations where people don't care about birth control and explode their demographics while arguing in favor of climate action?
There are a couple of apps that supposedly do that, but they all fail more or less miserably (one of them is easily defeated just by pressing Android's back button for instance).
A couple of days ago we got the: "Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is", now this article. What follows, "Aliens may have built the Pyramids after all"?
It is clear (both through data and through basic anecdotal observation) that dating at work became dangerous to your career, specially if you are a men. So even the cases were it was done in a polite and non creepy way, are rapidly disappearing.
The Square Kilometre Array, on its initial phase, will have close to 200 dish radio telescopes and 130000 radio antennas working together in South Africa and Australia. The amount of data produced is predicted at 50% of all internet traffic (this was calculated 2 years ago, probably it changed a bit). A big part of that data will be distributed across the globe for science, being the main link originating in South Africa and ending up in Europe.
This will be the biggest scientific endeavor (by size) of mankind so far.
The Phase 2 of the SKA (for now just an idea), will increase the number of telescope dishes and antennas by a factor of 10.
Then, I went to India (also in the summer): it's even worst (even colder inside and in the taxis).
These kind of things just to above my cultural sense of logic...
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