as that great american denis leary said, "fuck the pope"

[rone]

The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.

The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.

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[reddragdiva]

You are too stupid to bother arguing with.

That's not a logical dissection of your position, but it's certainly the case.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

> You are too stupid to bother arguing with.

Maybe true, but I hope you didn't come away with the idea that I'm somehow in favor of AIDS in Africa, or of withholding needed meds from people simply because they're African. The human catastrophe in Africa is on track to be the worst disaster in history, and I'm first in line to say that everyone needs to do what they can to help.

I'm also very much in favor of the idea of not doing any harm, though. And I think that careless or ill-considered attempts at help can do a lot of harm - remember that flap with the infant formula in the 80's? If we're going to put $15 billion into Africa, that's a tremendous amount of leverage to help or to harm, and I'm in favor of making sure all that leverage is used to alleviate human suffering rather than causing more.