[Vision2020] [Spam 5.59] Re: Subject change to "Was it Necessary to Use theAtomicBombs on Japan?" Former title Presidential Rankings

[Chasuk]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 18:45, Donovan Arnold
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I don't believe your comparison works.

D.A.R.E. is an education program, not a treatment  Think of it as a
sex education program teaching abstinence.

We know how unsuccessful teaching abstinence has been, and that it
often contributes to the problems that it is intended to prevent.

This is not analogous to treating AIDS.  Obligatory Wikipedia quote:
"In areas where it is widely available, the development of . . . [
highly active antiretroviral therapy] . . . for HIV infection and AIDS
reduced the death rate from this disease by 80%, and raised the life
expectancy for a newly diagnosed HIV-infected person to about 20
years."

Chas