Goody's Girl
06-18-2002, 04:51 AM
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to give its support for the testing of humans in an experiment to find a vaccine for the HIV virus.
In response to this lack of support, volunteers have offered their bodies to be given a weakened form of the virus in hopes that a vaccine can be produced.
Putting more people at risk of falling to HIV is bad for society. We as a society do not need any more people getting this dreaded disease.
We cannot take away the right of these people to volunteer for this experiment, but we must look at the logic of using people in society as our guinea pigs.
The volunteers will still be a part of society after the experiment. If this test is a failure, then the volunteers will die needlessly. The HIV virus is one that mutates rapidly, adapting to new drugs that are thrown at it.
If a vaccine is produced, there is no assurance that the HIV virus will not mutate and come back to harm more people.
The bottom line is science is hellbent on creating a vaccine and cure for a disease that is spread by irresponsibility.
There are only four ways a person get infected with HIV. People can get the virus by blood transfusion, mother to child through birth, sex and the sharing of needles. If people would get off their collective butts and be responsible, no more HIV and AIDS cases would develop, save for the ones already started.
Using condoms, screening blood and only using a needle once are ways to stop the spread of this virus.
But that will take too much time for the politicians and scientists to handle, so they feel they must do something. They must look active in the pursuit of a cure, and they forget that responsibility is the key to beating the virus.
If people are the means to an end of creating the much-desired vaccine, those cut off from society should be used.
Death row inmates make more sense when using humans for such experiments as HIV vaccines. The idea of using these inmates might ruffle some feathers, but they are the best choice for society as a whole.
The state is set to kill them, and they are there for a reason. Society, which pays for the housing, health and feeding of these inmates, should get something useful out of them.
Lab rats and mice aren’t a good comparison to humans. If animals are to be used, chimpanzees and apes should be used.
In response to this lack of support, volunteers have offered their bodies to be given a weakened form of the virus in hopes that a vaccine can be produced.
Putting more people at risk of falling to HIV is bad for society. We as a society do not need any more people getting this dreaded disease.
We cannot take away the right of these people to volunteer for this experiment, but we must look at the logic of using people in society as our guinea pigs.
The volunteers will still be a part of society after the experiment. If this test is a failure, then the volunteers will die needlessly. The HIV virus is one that mutates rapidly, adapting to new drugs that are thrown at it.
If a vaccine is produced, there is no assurance that the HIV virus will not mutate and come back to harm more people.
The bottom line is science is hellbent on creating a vaccine and cure for a disease that is spread by irresponsibility.
There are only four ways a person get infected with HIV. People can get the virus by blood transfusion, mother to child through birth, sex and the sharing of needles. If people would get off their collective butts and be responsible, no more HIV and AIDS cases would develop, save for the ones already started.
Using condoms, screening blood and only using a needle once are ways to stop the spread of this virus.
But that will take too much time for the politicians and scientists to handle, so they feel they must do something. They must look active in the pursuit of a cure, and they forget that responsibility is the key to beating the virus.
If people are the means to an end of creating the much-desired vaccine, those cut off from society should be used.
Death row inmates make more sense when using humans for such experiments as HIV vaccines. The idea of using these inmates might ruffle some feathers, but they are the best choice for society as a whole.
The state is set to kill them, and they are there for a reason. Society, which pays for the housing, health and feeding of these inmates, should get something useful out of them.
Lab rats and mice aren’t a good comparison to humans. If animals are to be used, chimpanzees and apes should be used.