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[–]mvmlego 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the clarification. The justification that I heard is that because treatment of AIDS has gotten much better, the life expectancy for someone who contracts it is longer, and therefore infecting someone with HIV is less harmful. I understand that reasoning, but 6 months still seems pretty light, especially for donating blood.

[–]deliciousdogfoodmy name isnt a puppyplay reference i swear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think that knowingly and intentionally infecting someone with a life threatening disease (To people with existing medical conditions it can still be a short term death sentence) resulting in them being dependent on a drug for the rest of their life that could potentially put them at the mercy of people like Martin Shkreli should be anything less than a criminal offense.

How is it fair at all to the people that now have to live with this shit that the person who did it to them gets basically a slap on the wrist? And this goes triple for intentionally donating infected blood. That's beyond malicious.