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Comment author: Azathoth123 30 September 2014 01:00:48AM -2 points [-]

A big difference about outing someone with syphillis vs with AIDS is back then it was thought by a lot of folks that AIDS was only transferrable by anal sex,

Thought correctly, I might add.

Which was also much more dangerous to be outed as back then.

I doubt it was more dangerous than getting AIDS was back then.

Comment author: falenas108 30 September 2014 04:31:16AM *  3 points [-]

Thought correctly, I might add.

Uh, no. Transmission rates are higher with anal sex, but not 0 for vaginal sex.

I doubt it was more dangerous than getting AIDS was back then. Yes. That's clearly not the point of that comment, which was saying that making an equivalence between that in syphilis and HIV is not accurate. Unless you're trying to say the mortality rate between HIV was lower than syphilis back then, which seems to be not accurate

Comment author: Azathoth123 01 October 2014 12:43:34AM -2 points [-]

So basically you're arguing for "death before dishonor". Ok, just keep in mind that the policy you're defending did indeed lead to many deaths.

Comment author: falenas108 02 October 2014 03:33:23PM -1 points [-]

I did not say that this difference made it the wrong policy, merely that it's something to keep in mind and that you shouldn't consider the cases of syphilis and AIDS to be entirely analogous.

Comment author: Azathoth123 03 October 2014 01:49:21AM 2 points [-]

The differences you highlight are much less than the differences in lethality.

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