Monte wrote:
DE - If someone with HIV is careless, are they not culpable for infecting another person? Is the disease just acting on it's own?
In the specific case of HIV and a few other sexually transmitted diseases, they might be culpable if they knew beforehand that they had the disease, although the disease is still acting on it's own; it isn't an event like an accident. A virus is a thing.
That doesn't mean much, however. The vast majority of healthcare problems are
not STDs and have nothing to do with someone else's negligence. Traffic accidents
always involve negligence on the part of at least one person. It certainly is not possible to say that because STDs can be transmitted through personal negligence, and because traffic accidents are caused by negligence, and since we require insurance to deal with the consequences of traffic accidents, that we therefore need, or should require health insurance for everyone to deal with the problem of negligent transmission of STDs.
That may not be what you were trying to say, but if it wasn't that or something substantially similar I'd wonder why you wre pursuing this line about car insurance and STDs at all.
An' if ye tar yerself by associatin' with such scurvey dogs as ta get the HIV a 'tall, you'll not be findin' me sympathy.