Wednesday, October 24, 2007

AIDS conspiracy, cont.

I was thinking about my last post (about the supposed AIDS conspiracy) and I find it utterly ridiculous. I just cannot believe that AIDS would be introduced by our government to wipe out either the gay community or another minority community. I can believe that it would be used in bio-warfare, because war is always ugly, brutal, and senseless. The problem with using a disease as a form of genocide is that diseases cannot be controlled. Lets say the government gave 10 gay men the AIDS virus under some other pretense; they go out and each have sex with 10 men. Those men all get AIDS. But lets say one of those men had a wife at home or was bisexual; he has sex with a woman, gives her AIDS, suddenly the government is responsible for killing people who weren't on the list. Diseases spread rapidly and without prejudice; how could our government release a deadly disease and expect it to only kill those they wanted it to. Maybe the government doesn't really care who they kill, you might say. I don't believe it. Call me crazy but I think too many people spend too much time thinking of conspiracy theories and how evil the government is. Sure, there's a lot of false advertising in America; the most obvious lie is freedom is free. But that doesn't mean that it's not a great country, that we don't have freedom and the right to say and do what we want. I mean, we're allowed to say openly that the government is evil and corrupt! How amazing is that! I just think that as Americans, we have it too good. We're fat, lazy, drive big cars so we don't have to walk or be in discomfort--everything is handed to us. We even have the luxury of being depressed! We have it so good that we can take time out of our day to sit and mope and be miserable for a while. Do you think anyone in a 3rd world country has that right? Even if a man from Ethiopia was depressed, do you think he'd sit around thinking about it all day? No, he doesn't have the luxury because he has more important things to worry about. In America, we don't have many important things to worry about anymore so we like making up stories to give us something to fret over. I'm not saying that the government is completely clean or that people shouldn't question what they're told, but for "god's sake," calm down a little because not everything is a lie!

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