should the government show a list of people with std's?

Question

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Answer 1

Privacy Law will not allow personal information to listed or exposed. Would you want your privacy to be reveal like that. I hope this country remains a democracy.

Answer 2

Not if you want people to come forward and be treated properly, and not unless you want to see your name on the list every time you get a yeast infection. It's pretty personal information, private between you and your doctor, and should be kept that way. If we made it public, people would not seek treatment and the diseases would spread rampantly. Far more people and innocents would suffer than already do, all because people would rather die than be embarassed. Nothing beneficial would be gained, and there is far more to lose by publishing a listing of people whose only sin was to catch a disease. Nobody should be penalized for getting a disease, nor should they be left open to public ridicule. Let's say you get HPV from your husband, who got it years ago from an old flame. Now you have a baby on the way, and the prenatal testing reveal the disease. Do you really want your name and his recorded for posterity? And what will you tell that baby when he/she goes off to school and hears about it from a playground bully?

Answer 3

I seriously hope you're joking.

Now let's see ... instead of a person taking personal responsibility and protecting themself, the government should publicly humiliate individuals who've already been humiliated personally by simply contracting a disease?

I understand the need for self preservation, so simply protect yourself. Don't have sex until you know someones sexual history, and use condoms. Then you have nothing to worry about. Why should other people, already undergoing stressful situations, be publicly humiliated to save you from having to take a little precaution and use some foresight?

Answer 4

no, protect yourself. put yourself in the position of being a person with std, would you want your name on a list? i put myself in that position and would not want to be humiliated that way! would you? i could see how you want to know before you sleeping with someone. but it's too mean to that, you yourself be CAREFUL.

Answer 5

No. The best thing to do is use a form of protection. Next is to both get checked. If your partner does not want to, then he/she is not honest.

Answer 6

no... I think it's your obligation to take the proper percautions to make sure you are safe.
It shouldn't be the governments job to do so.
If you are willing to sleep with people without a condom, then that's your fault.

Answer 7

I believe that is a violation of our civil liberties . No they shouldnt . Everyone should watch out for themselves and always wrap it up .

Answer 8

nope, no one would ever get tested if they were at risk of their privacy being invaded in this matter.

Answer 9

What??????????? Omg......