RapierFugue
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ORIGINAL: Celeste43 In the meantime call your phone company and report her telephone harassment, speak to your lawyer, get the police to serve her with an order of protection to stop the phone calls. And be celibate for six months, with std scans on both ends of the time period. And if he/she have given you one, give their names to the Board of Health, call your lawyer and sue them. Is it a knee-jerk reaction in the US to reach for one’s lawyer for every eventuality? I don't even *have* a lawyer, and have never needed one. You can sue people for giving you an STD? How extraordinary. Aren’t you also liable for blame by not having taken precautions? I confess I’m fascinated. Do please explain. Are you kidding. You can sue for anything in this country. And yeah, I'd venture to guess half the population probably keep lawyers on retainer for just that kind of eventuality. I do know that if person A has an STD, and fails to tell B, has sex with B and then B winds up with said STD and can prove that A knew they had it before having sex with B... (convoluted no?) than A is criminally and civilly responsible. (If you have HIV/Aids for example....then A could be charged with attempted manslaughter/homicide etc for basically effecting the early death of B via disease...) Ye gods, that’s unreal. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? In the UK I believe there’s a rule for HIV/AIDS, as failing to inform the person you’re with that you have HIV or AIDS constitutes attempted serious assault (and even then I think the prosecution have to prove you behaved recklessly (like it was with multiple partners or on multiple occasions), or some such, but for all STDs? That’s just crazy. If either a man or woman take the risk of having unprotected sex that’s their call. I’ve done it before myself, and for sure I’d have been cheesed off if I later got something and found out my partner knew, but it would be *my* error. For what it’s worth the UK is going more towards the US legal system every day, and it really annoys me. There are some great things about America, but the legal system isn’t one of them. For some years now the number of “ambulance chasers” has been increasing, and one group of solicitors (I don’t know what you know but the UK legal system is divided into legal case preparation staff, called solicitors, and courtroom advocates, called barristers) has been advertising for some years on TV with the slogan “where there’s a blame there’s a claim”, which beggars belief. Obviously, where’s there’s wilful negligence then companies and individuals should be held to account, but it’s got beyond a joke. The only saving grace here is that judges set compensation amounts, not juries as in the US, so you don’t tend to get ludicrous “£10,000,000” payouts over nothing, but even so it’s not good, and it’s going in the wrong direction, every day. What’s that line from Henry VI? “First we kill all the lawyers”.
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