BUG CHASERS, GIFT GIVERS--IDIOTS!

Last Monday, as I was watching The John Walsh Show, I was dumbfounded as to what the content of the show had consisted.  At first, when I had seen the title of the episode, I was going to turn the TV.  However, as I listened to the guests, the conversation was shocking--to say the least.  There was a young man on the show who had been introduced as a "bug chaser".  A bug chaser is someone who deliberately tries to become infected with the HIV virus.  The man was explaining his lifestyle to John Walsh, as well as why he had become a "bug chaser".  In his words, he did it because he wanted to belong to a "community".  Needless to say, he now has AIDS.  Later in the show, they started discussing "gift givers"--people who are HIV-positive who deliberately infects people with the virus.  After the show, I had decided to research this new "trend".  I looked it up on the Internet and found an article that had been featured in Rolling Stone magazine.  Basically, the people who are so intent upon getting HIV say that it's like having diabetes...a person just takes a few pills and go on with life.  The person who was interviewed in the article said that this was about freedom--a person can be with whoever they wanted, as much as they wanted, and nothing worse can happen.  These people basically see this as erotic and adventurous.  Others see this as a way to belong.  Still others find this as an excuse to partake in wild, uninhibited sex.

As I was watching The John Walsh Show, and reading Rolling Stone's article, I couldn't help but roll my eyes in disgust and frustration.  What are these people thinking?  Are they so brainless, or so devoid of love and self-esteem that they are willing to destroy their lives by infecting themselves--and others--with a deadly disease?  I can't help but think of them as a bunch of idiots.  How can a person say that when a person has HIV can just take a few pills and go on with life?  Do they realize exactly how many pills that an HIV-positive person has to take...every day?  It takes dozens of pills in order to finally go on with the rest of the day.  There is nothing erotic, adventurous, or beautiful about HIV and AIDS.  If you don't believe me, I invite you to visit an AIDS clinic.  You will see, first hand, the realities of being infected with AIDS.  There is nothing beautiful about losing so much weight that you become skin and bones.  There is nothing sexy about not being able to control your own bodily functions.  Last but not least, there is nothing exciting about having dementia or dying from something that is curable because your immune system is shut down.  This may seem like a "gift" at the moment but, in the long term, it will surely become what it truly is--a curse.

Now, a small note for the "gift givers" of the world:  you can go to jail for murder.  The law says that if a person purposely infects another person with HIV, that is just like putting a gun to his/her head and pulling the trigger.  Spending the rest of your life in prison, along with having HIV or AIDS, does not sound or look very wonderful.

People, I don't know what this world is coming to.  Right now, this is mainly happening in the gay community.  However, sooner or later--sooner THAN later--this will be occurring in the heterosexual community as well.  I am not going to preach about homosexuality or nothing like that--it's not my business.  However, when these so-called "bug chasers" finally "catch the bug", they'll have no one to blame but themselves.  In my opinion, they are all just being selfish.  When they get deathly ill from AIDS ravaging their bodies, someone else will have to care for them.  AIDS and HIV are not beautiful--they are just a sure bet for a slow, painful death.  And they call this sort of thing...breeding?  The only seeds that these "gift givers" are planting are seeds of certain death.    If they are so intent upon killing themselves, why don't they do it in a faster way--like shooting themselves?  The end result is the same; catching AIDS is just committing suicide slower.  I don't want to sound as if I'm wishing suicide on anyone, but that's what it sounds like these guys are doing.  There is a saying:  be careful what you wish for--you just might get it.  I just wonder if these people will look back in their lives, see the real "gift" from God that they've ruined, and think to themselves, "Was it really worth it?