Criminalization...

This article is about a Canadian man found guilty of attempted murder for knowingly exposing his partners to HIV without their knowledge.   He didn't give them a chance to make an informed decision on whether or not to have sex a + person.  I'm not saying he was totally responsible, they choose to engage in risky sexual activity.  Still, he knew he was + & that makes him responsible for not willingly infecting others.

A lot of HIV activists oppose this type of judicial decision. I understand they're afraid this is a slippery slope & people could be charged for simply being + & not getting tested.  However, this man knowingly infected people.  He's an HIV + man not a brain-craving zombie.  He had reason & knew better, but still his desire to have sex superseded his partners' safety.

As the article points out, there are much better meds & treatments today.  So HIV is not usually the near automatic death sentence it used to be.  However, it's still far from living a normal life, you are dependent on meds & people do still die of HIV.  They compared this to being shot.  We have much better medical means to handle someone with a gunshot wound than a century ago, but you still got shot. 

This man may not have killed his partners.  However, their lives have been irrevocably altered.  These people will face difficulties & challenges they never would have faced if they weren't +.  

In my opinion, when a person knowingly infects someone with a deadly virus, rapes someone, or physical traumatizes them, that person has killed part of their victim.  This other person may still have a pulse, but they will never be the person they were before the event ever again.  I find that as bad & in some case worse, than attempted murder.

I do get why activists against criminalization are worried, but on this matter I disagree.  This man destroyed these people's lives so he could have sex.  His utter disregard for them makes him a diseased beast & in my book you shoot rabid dogs.  This man should be put down, before he infects more people in prison or gets out & starts all over again.

Cya...