--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder how people in the end of the XXI century > will > think about _us_, who are passive in the face of the > AIDS African Holocaust :-/ > > Alberto Monteiro
Harshly, but not as harshly. For several reasons. Two of which are: 1. Sitting on your hands and doing nothing is bad. Actively helping people involved in genocide is much worse, and that's what Communist sympathizers and Communist spies did during the Cold War. 2. Despite what people think, it's really not all that clear what to do in Africa. The AIDS drugs that we're finally giving out there do some good, but the methods used to get them (basically, browbeating pharma companies that bothered to do research to try to cure AIDS) means that all private research in AIDS has, to first order, stopped. I imagine that history will judge the people who made that happen very harshly indeed, actually. Just throwing money at the problem will do little, because the structures and governments necessary to administer the aid and make it useful _don't exist_. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
