Against the Mandatory Registration of Known AIDS Carriers

As it is, finding out that you have a terminal disease is a seriously disheartening

circumstance. It is a hard hit of realizations that you will be losing your distant future,

your personal goals, life becomes frail and subordinate. If you can imagine learning the

simple statement that your life is ending much sooner than you had expected due to a

disease that will slowly materialize throughout your body and stop the production of

everything that sustains life, then you can understand that it would be very rough having

other problems spring from here after.

It has been suggested, for the safety of the uninformed, that mandatory registration

take effect for carriers of the AIDS virus. This proposal would put an already problematic

individual into more emotional jeopardy. Many things crucial in life would become even

more difficult, creating a much larger problem than already present.

Discrimination is very hard to prove. Yet is has been reported to the press from

patients of the disease that business companies discriminate against aids carriers due to

unsure life expectancy and attendance problems. It is also likely that co-workers may not

understand AIDS or be afraid of the disease and this could suggest a problem in comfort

for both the victim of the illness and the other employees. Other problems include the

issue that companies usually won’t look fairly on people with unsure health insurance, and

quite often, health insurance companies will not cover pre-existing conditions.

Along with the freedom of speech and right to bear arms, there is also a right to

privacy. Everyone is given the right to conserve personal information, so stated as

consumer protection, be it health, criminal records, or financial history. Those who suffer

from the AIDS virus are also protected from letting this information out of their hands.

Any human being, despite his/her level of honesty, would want the decency of personal

comfort. If one’s disease, or any condition that would be criticized by society, were

known to anyone who inquired, s/he would possibly suffer a degree of pain, discomfort,

humility, or depression. Had there been no controversy for this right, it would not exist.

It is well-known due to observation, statements and complaints of millions, that

America’s government and printing presses, doctors and receptionists, are susceptible to

error and mistake. This is a fact of human personality. A misprint or misdiagnosis could

cause unnecessary chaos and distress.

In my conclusion of reasons, there is not a good one for making the registration of

AIDS carriers mandatory .

Along with my argument against this mandatory registration, I have another option

for those who still disagree: perhaps instead a specific state of being should be determined

for martyrs of the AIDS virus where they are clearly not able to live life as any healthy

person anymore, thus would not need a job as do uninfected people. Here the doctor, the

only one with right to records of health history and conditions, may recommend the

patient to proper standards. This is true with any illness.

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