[Vision2020] The risk of avoiding the truth....

[J Ford]

Tony;

There are other groups, groups right here in the Moscow/Pullman/Lewiston 
area, that have FAR riskier behavior...just as "swingers" and "the 
Alternative Lifestyle" groups that I believe it can be shown have much worse 
records as far as health issues are concerned.  I don't see you or Dale or 
his thugs talking about them or pointing them out.



J  :]





>From: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
>To: "Nick Gier" <ngier at uidaho.edu>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The risk of avoiding the truth....
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:34:42 -0800
>
>Nick, as I pointed out to Keely, I do not single out any one group for 
>criticism with regard to risky behaviors.  The reason I specified the 
>homosexual community in that particular posting was because it was in 
>response to another message that dealt with that group and the behavior in 
>question.  It is unfair and presumptuous to accuse others of bigotry and 
>discrimination when they are only attempting to minimize the effect of a 
>deadly plague through education.  I feel that pandering to any group and 
>condoning if not championing certain ill advised activities in an effort to 
>avoid seeming "intolerant" will only enable risk.
>
>But go ahead and feel morally superior if it appeals to you.
>
>Best,  -T
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Nick Gier
>   To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>   Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:15 PM
>   Subject: [Vision2020] Sex Health Risks
>
>
>   Greetings:
>
>   For the upteenth time, I would like to remind our dear readers that 
>millions of heterosexuals practice sex in ways that make them vulnerable to 
>infection.  Why, except for reasons of bigotry and discrimination, are gay 
>men singled out for censure????
>
>   Nick Gier, intolerista par excellence
>
>   Intolerance is a virtue when one is intolerant of bigotry, 
>discrimination, dishonesty, name calling, etc. , etc., etc.
>
>   "Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to human 
>affairs."
>   --Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>   "Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
>represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
>    --Mohandas Gandhi
>
>   "Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
>discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part 
>by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the 
>interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual 
>life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and 
>art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." 
>--Max Planck
>
>   Nicholas F. Gier
>   Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
>   1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843
>   http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm
>   208-882-9212/FAX 885-8950
>   President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
>   http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm
>
>
>
>
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