Moral Question: Should people with AIDS be segregated?
Even if you could screen for AIDS, a negative test result doesn’t mean that a person can’t have HIV (which causes AIDS). There is a window of about three months where an HIV positive person will test negative, they could pass through a screen undetected. Also, limiting those with AIDS to a city or cities is basically a form of confinement. Confining someone because they COULD spread an illness like AIDS which IS treatable just seems wrong to me. By that reasoning, we should confine anyone with a non-curable, communicable disease. So, I’d have to say “no” to this one. – Brian makes a very good point in his answer. HIV negative people have just as much responsibility as HIV positive people do in regards to health, both their own and that of any potential partner(s). Very nice Brian.
