I found this site ( http://lastsexofanhiv.blogspot.com ) from a friend's post in Facebook. This site inadvertently name names/profiles of people who are "supposed" HIV/AIDS Positive Spreader (to use his words precisely). Whoever created this, i think, is sick. Very, very sick!
I have to admit that upon scrolling down the page, I was somehow worried my profile would be there and I was already thinking of freaking out. LOL. Anyway, I went on reading the page and tried to ponder.
I really don't know what the intent is, but whatever it is, it already earned my contempt. It hides behind the cloak of "concern and compassion".
Whether the people whos names and profiles are real HIV/AIDS infected or falsely accused won't even be of much significance to me---whether it is true or not, these people deserve the same regard and respect as everyone else.
I understand that HIV/AIDS in the country has reached a number most of us wouldn't even imagine, and it is a good thing to know that there are people and group who acts to solve the problem. But at the same time, there are those individual who very often hide nicely behind the cloak of righteousness.
I won't come clean. I, too make wrong judgments. But to go as far as this goes beyond mere lapse of judgment, but extends to ignorance and disrespect.
OK. So we all suffer insult, and we all feel hurt, and we all tend to sink into fantasies of revenge. Some of us then “get angry” and violently act out the fantasies in real life. And some of us just push everything out of awareness and pretend we are “concerned” persons.
This blog may be trying to 'save the world'. The intentions may well be very noble. But then again, I believe it is not all the intentions that counts. We cannot cure an open wound by taking cough medicines.
In all of these, let me just say--
If you want to change the world, begin by changing yourself.
If you want the world to be more fair, treat the world fairly even when you are treated unfairly.
If you want the world to be more kind, treat the world with kindness and return a blessing for every insult.
Show the world by your good actions—not by empty protest or violence—that you are willing to live according to what you profess to believe.
I so much agree with what you have said here. To be honest, I am even more terrified as I know one of them, personally. I know he is negative but my words against that hateful blog wont be enough to redeem that person's already tarnished character.
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine why people do such things. The intentions were good but at the expense of others. The blogger should have realized that those people allegedly positive with HIV are also victims and the least they can do is to educate others without compromising someone else's life.
I highly condemn the act. it's a disgusting piece of a blog.