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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=...sion=6.0.11.847

-3Threes

That is so goddamn stupid I can't even put it into words.

That is totally and absolutely fucked up.

I don't think I can find the right words for this.

As a friend of mine would put it, this is yet more proof that certain people should be dragged into the street and shot multiple times. But he's a bit of an extremist.

While I'm going to go out on a limb and say this has absolutely nothing to actually do with Shadowrun, I will also go ahead and voice my opinion that it is things like this that make me mourn the incredible, mind-boggling idocy that is only becoming more prevalent as a we continue to remove/reduce selective pressures on ourselves as a species.

Anyone who intentionally infects themselves with a disease should quite simply not be allowed treatment for that disease.

This should be ported over to Bulldrek.

On a relevancy issue: you could do this with some variant of the now-included magician-sensitive diseases. Or HMHVV.

"Yeah, it would totally turn me on to get bitten by a vampire."

I suppose it would appeal to Hot Topic kids.

I think he's showing that the UB really doesn't need those fancy ads, when there's people like this out in the world.

it doesn't bother me that much, idiocy tends to breed itself out of the population...

Er yeah, some dud came up with that.. Darwin I think it was

Nay, Darwin's proponents say survival of the fittest, not the most intelligent. Go read Bruce Sterling's "Our Neural Chernobyl."

Novel: Psychotrope. Underground female vampire rocker; sexual/feeding encounter with young fan; infection prevented by prototype <antibody? immunization therepy?>; vampire was in on it, kid was not; father set it up. Yamatetsu(?).

Sure are a lot of cold-hearted assholes around here.

He doesn't deserve to be shot or denied treatment. He's not necessarily an idiot. The poor bastard needs psychological help, that's all.

i find it most nuts that he takes the time to ask what kind of milk was used and then goes on to say he was to become HIV positive. talk about a walking contradiction. i feel the person looked at HIV as a social magnet or something, kinda like when your broken your arm and everyone goes sad eyed and asks how its going and starts being all helpfull. no wonder there is a mental problem called munchhausen (with or without proxy), those people at ettention seekers that makes sure that they are allways on top of fashion and style. personaly i think they dont have a life as they dont have any opinions of their own...

This is idiocy. This man is purposely trying to become a drain on our society. Treating HIV is EXPENSIVE. I am sure he has insurance that will cover most of it. Of course over time they will have to raise their rates to everyone as a whole to make up for it.

The absolute worst part is, this moron thinks the disease is no big deal. Therefore he probably wont think twice about infecting someone else. I feel for the poor girl he infects cause he thinks it's cool. It's a death sentence is what it is. A slow, agonizing death sentence.

Which is exactly what should be given to anyone who purposely transmits the disease to someone else.


On a Shadowrun note: I could totally see hordes of teenage boys and girls trying to get infected with vampirism.

Some poor guy, unless he decides to switch sexual preferences after getting infected (or switches and then gets infected).

~J

Or switches while getting infected.

for those who dont wanna read it because it is too long - here are the parts that creepily reminded me of the Universal Brotherhood

My main thoughts on this...:

A) This has been a problem for a while. I dunno if it's a minor cult of sorts, or freakishly widespread. My dad says for me to get AIDS testing before I plan on having a child, and thus I likely will for safety's sake. Stupid-ass mother-fragging world. What's it coming to?

B) They don't mind it? Well, I'll let them be the judge of that as they wither away horribly on a hospital bed.

C) And this is happening in a country founded by Puritans? My, how we've changed...

D) I forget what D was, but it was going to be in reply to lspahn's comment. Oh well.

Problem is that in todays society, more intelligent people are having fewer kids so as to give them a better quality of life. Stupid people still breed like rabbits. They'll win eventually.

As far as psychological help for people like this? There are a stack of people out there who both WANT and are willing to ACCEPT help and can't afford it. Wasting it on people like this? I'd much rather see it go to Animal Care or another worthy cause.

Just wish they'd get on with it and kill each other off faster.

The Universal Brotherhood is going to be way bigger than this. I mean, HIV only kills you. Becoming a bug makes you stronger, faster, smarter and magical, not to mention actually being a meaningful part of an extremely powerful society.

These guys are just modern-day circumcellions, and it'd be better all around if they just slit their wrists and got it over with.

Yeah, see my sig? Yeah... this guy too... but prehaps with a rusty tire iron insted.

I don't know if it matters, but this article ended up being descredited. It turns out the author only had one, very sketchy source. The doctors in the article claim to be outrageously misquoted, and no public health organization has found any real evidence of a "bug chaser" culture. Newsweek did a big expose on the whole thing, which can be found via a simple google search if you are interested.

EDIT: Postkill initiated because Oddfellow's info popped up before I could post what I was gonna say. Carry on.