Foolish Conduct Brings Disastrous Consequences

Foolish Conduct Brings Disastrous Consequences

Dear Editor:

A recent article in the Arizona Republic related doleful news about the AIDS epidemic that continues to ravage our world. Thirty-eight million people are now infected. Those contracting this disease will die from it. Treatment only forestalls the inevitable. The rapid spread of this deadly virus has been helped by myopic do-gooders who refuse to tell their readers and viewers where the risk is highest. In their efforts to please the homosexual community, politicians and media have pretended that everyone is equally at risk of contracting AIDS. They rarely identify the primary killing fields. Emma Ross, in a recent AP article, inadvertently pointed out that “In Asia, the disease is confined mostly to drug addicts, homosexual or bisexual men, prostitutes and their clients, and the sexual partners of people who frequent prostitutes.” The same is true in every other part of the world.

Of these categories, the wives whose husbands frequent prostitutes surely bear no responsibility for being infected. (We could add those who infected through tainted blood transfusions). All the others are engaging in risky behavior and suffering the consequences of their decisions. Refusing to change their destructive habits, they clamor for society somehow fix the situation so they can continue to indulge themselves without risk of harm. When infected, they expect society (insurance or government) to pick up the tab for the costly medications that will postpone their demise.

We shake our head at religious fanatics who die after drinking arsenic to demonstrate their faith. But their conduct is no more foolish than that of drug addicts, prostitutes and their customers and male homosexuals who risk the deadly virus for a moment’s pleasure or for a few dollars.

Truly did Solomon say, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).

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