Culpability of person who infects another with a disease or virus?

[MMMark]

Wed. 12/04/11 16:39 EDT
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@Clayton

[/url]@MMMark: But that is really beside the point of the question. Assuming AIDs is what it is said to be, …

Yes, you’re right. I threw that in as an “aside,” a topic you might enjoy exploring, if you already haven’t.

@Clayton

… is someone culpable for (knowingly) spreading it? I think the answer is pretty clearly no unless they restrained or otherwise coerced the victim into the circumstances in which he or she was infected.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the issue of “(knowingly) spreading it” is still irrelevant to the question of culpability. It is the restraint and aggression that inculpates; infection and other subsequent damage is relevant only to the calculation of punishment or restitution, once aggression has been committed.

Edit: corrected a typo.