Comments on: Transformational government, data sharing, and discrimination against kids with Aids http://idealgovernment.com/2008/07/transformational_government_data_sharing_and_discrimination_against_kids_wi/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sam Liddicott http://idealgovernment.com/2008/07/transformational_government_data_sharing_and_discrimination_against_kids_wi/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:28:50 +0000 http://transformational_government_data_sharing_and_discrimination_against_kids_wi#comment-2450 The whole scenario is doomed to failure.

There was once a time when “unfortunate victims” and their supporters were sensibly aware of the common social disabilities which prevented “right thinking folk” from fully integrating with “the unusual” and came up with a next-best solution which often involved partial or full segregation (excuse the loaded word there).

This is a sad but sometimes better solution as education of the proles is too slow, as there is in-bred resistance, and new ones keep being born, etc, so the new plan is to keep differences secret from masses.

The proles can’t be told that the other prole has aids because they can’t be trusted to respond appropriately.

However the teachers, the head teacher and the victim are all proles too (as are we all), and so we see plainly (as was also demonstrated), that no-one can be told anything – unless we split the country into overlords (who can be trusted to behave appropriately) and proles (who cannot).

In fact before long, the overlords behaviour will be “appropriate” by definition.

As a general problem, aids discrimination is on the continuum of general discrimination, the difference is that aids (along with diabetes and computer fetishism) is something that can be kept secret longer than freckles or a squint, and any solution that doesn’t consider the full continuum of discrimination is by definition a partial solution.

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