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...second. The most effective means of controlling a contagious epidemic is through prevention. But the AIDS movement has emphasized the rapid development of treatments for AIDS victims. Says Michael Nesline of the activist group ACT UP: "We're fighting for people for whom the question of prevention is a moot point." In this regard, the movement found allies in conservative politicians who were unable to support "safe sex" education but saw AIDS research as politically neutral...
...find the environment far more exciting to the future than politics. Politics is shockingly transient. The issues that we are so concerned with today are nearly forgotten in three weeks. Environmental issues are not going to be a moot point ten years from now. They are getting more acute. Discovering how to make them funny is a distinct and irresistible challenge...
...latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that we can, for in an increasingly Green-conscious world, if we don't go down to the seas again, to the lonely...
Saying that poverty, homelessness and racism are wrong is like saying that it sometimes rains in Boston. Although a scintillating observation, it is a moot point...
ONCE women are denied the right to make decisions about their reproductive lives, the differences between a pro-choice position that protects women's privacy and a pro-life position that protects fetuses are moot...