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Behavior modification=most FReepers belief. Including mine. Which is exactly the OPPOSITE of many of your arguments during most of the thread. Or what they seemed to be saying. I don’t know...seems you’ve obfuscated and relativized to the point that the entire thread is about useless.

Huh? No, I've been consistent. Nobody is going to go out and baby sit millions of people and set curfews and tell them who they can and cannot have sex with. In the absence of that, there are two things we can and should do. I have been consistent on both of those

1. There needs to be more education, so people know what behaviors are sound and what are inherently risky. If, knowing that, they insist on making poor choices then at least that's their fault. Right now, many people in many parts of the third world just don't know enough to make informed decisions.

2. In addition to education, I support efforts to come up with treatments for HIV/AIDS. There are an awful lot of people who are already infected, and an awful lot of those have become infected through no fault of their own. This second prong seems just common sense to me.

I don't see where I've contradicted myself, nor do I see what's so radical about what I've been proposing. Maybe you can enlighten me.