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I have no idea. I'd guess millions, but it'd be just that, a guess. It doesn't matter what the number is, only that it's possible. If it's possible and the only thing stopping someone is the choices they make, then it's not unrealistic as you claimed.


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Wow. Millions? Out of the hundreds of billions of people who have lived on this earth you think MILLIONS of people managed abstinence? its not unnatural at all then.

And it does matter what the number is. We're trying to determine what's natural and realistic. Just because something is possible doesn't make it realistic.

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There is a very high probability that if Africans were taught about condoms and given them access to them, that lives would be saved. Do you agree with this?


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Perhaps. Go teach them if that's what you believe. I won't stop you.

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Perhaps? What a cop out. You can't answer definitely? You can't look at the well tested performance of condoms and make a confident prediction on whether or not introducing condoms to Africa would likely save lives?

And what I'm teaching them is not the point. My question was, if you are honestly concerned with saving lives and helping to slow the spread of AIDS, wouldn't the rational thing to do considering all we know is to teach birth control too? A simple yes or no.