If we’d quarantined all active male homosexuals in the early 80’s, HIV-AIDS would be a footnote in medical journals, and we’d be Nazis.
When firefighters start back fires in the forest are they arsonist?
When surgeons remove cancerous growths in the body, are they butchers?
When the courts find someone guilty and that person is locked up are they kidnappers?
Because someting is similar does not mean it is the same.
The Nazi went after homosexuals (and others) because of hate there was no other motive behind their action.
Quaratine has a long history in this nation although it has fallen out of favor as a means of controlling deseases.
Up to the 1950s it was common to quaratine people with deseases such as TB and polio. In case you are too young to remember, polio was the big desease of the first half of the last century (think MARCH OF DIMES).
If those affected with HIV had been treated the same way other sexually transmitted deseases were treated the epidemic would have been short lived.
Further, I find it incredible after all these years with all that is known, those most at risk of the virus have refused to modify their own behavior.
As someone elsewhere has pointed out, HIV is the first virus with civil rights. It is the homosexual community that has condemned themselves to these risk by fighting any attempt fight the cause and spread of the desease.
The reason we don't use such draconian policies against US citizens with an infectious disease is that we now have medical and technical means of combatting these diseases. Many people avoided catching polio by simply avoiding public swimming pools. That is a huge burden so why not expect people to do a simple thing like wear a condom, or not have sex outside of marraige? We have better ways to screen donated blood so the likliehood of another kid getting it like White is greatly reduced, the risk isn't high enough to imprison thousands of Americans.
If those affected with HIV had been treated the same way other sexually transmitted deseases were treated the epidemic would have been short lived.
A shot of penicillan was never a cure for aids like it is for most STD's. We used to give labotomies to people who were too high strung or had a chemical imbalance or were mentally retarded. Why don't we do that anymore? The right answer to that question is also why we don't round up thousands of citizens with a disease and imprison them. If you don't want AIDS then stay faithful to your current or future spouse or if that's impossible wear a condom and never let a guy poke you in the pooper. It's that simple. For all of the people freaking out about this; what are you so afraid of? Are you having a bunch of bareback sex with junkies and homo's? Are you sharing needles when you mainline crank and coke and smack? That's how you get it, pretty much the only way. I think we have a BUNCH of Larry Craigs and closet junkies on this thread. The rest of us really have nothing to fear from AIDS.