[Right Wing Professor]

So if we're going to start outlawing things based on the transmission of AIDS then we have to expand the sphere well past sodomy.

Why do we have to do that?

Sodomy is one of the leading mechanisms of AIDS trnasmission in the country. AIDS costs the country billions of dollars a year. There is an obvious state interest in reducing that cost. Other major means of transmission (e.g. intravenous drug use, prostitution) are also illegal, or illegal in most jurisdictions. Minor mechanisms of transmission have very little social impact and the state can simply decide they're not important enough to deal with.

This is like arguing that because we enforce helmet laws on motorcyclists, and because pedestrians are also injured in auto accidents, we should impose hemet laws on pedestrians.

[discostu]

But it isn't the only method. The only reason there's a "state interest" is because bad people are slowly converting us to socialized medicine. A better answer would be to re-privatize medicine so we can erradicate all the nanny laws being foisted onto us with that sorry assed excuse. As for your other methods, WOD is the biggest single threat to the Constitution we have today. And prositution is the exact same disease vector as normal sex you just have one population that's crawling with illness because they have a lot of sex, an equally sized population of sluts and sorority girls have just as many diseases and neither of those behaviors is illegal.

No I'm arguing that helmet laws are a direct violation of our rights. The state shouldn't have the ability to tell us to live in a safe little nerf world. People take assumed risks based on their behavior, some behavior is more risky than others, unless they're posing a danger to unwilling participants it's none of the state's business.