"...As for aids, that's a lifestyle choice. You and I we don't have to get aids. Its not contagious. You get it from being a homosexual or from shooting up needles!! "
That is a pretty bizarre statement. Women have gotten AIDS when their husbands have unprotected sex, and pass it on to them; heterosexual college students have gotten it when they had unprotected sex; a doctor got it from picking up a dirty sheet in the hospital that happened to have a contaminated needle in it; people have gotten it from being treated by a dentist who did not properly sterilize his equipment; the list goes on and on. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including heterosexual men and women, homosexual men and women, hemophiliacs, sexual partners of hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients, injection-drug users and infants have all developed AIDS.
You're free to contribute your research dollars towards whatever disease cure you wish, but to state that AIDS is a lifestyle choice and to imply that people "asked for it" is incredibly insensitive to say the least.
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