Ah now we have philosophy too...

Kuhn can be used to argue against anything....you can debase positivism all you want, but it the foundation on which all human knowledge has been built and organized.

But back to the real world.

The arguments here are all over the place, contradictory and add no insight into why men would want to bareback or worse yet to bareback and NOT talk about HIV.

Yet they make it quite clear that something must be done, unfortunately it will probably be more government involvement.

Why should we the taxpayer's have to pay the medical benefits for people who willfully and knowingly put themselves at risk for contracting a disease, and why should we pay for the medical benefits for someone who knowingly spreads the disease.

This is the ethical catch-22.

We give benefits out of compassion...but end up taking the fear out of the disease and wind up keeping people alive and living who have no compassion for anyone else.