<![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @marie123: Good question. In an age where you really shouldn't trust anyone with your health like that until proven otherwise? *My* short answer is if someone's going to be responsible about his or her health, they need to ask, uncomfortable or not.

That being said, the guy's letter doesn't say whether he actually got the blood test for herpes, so again, how can he even say that he has it if he doesn't know for sure?

broad

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> I sure as hell wouldn't feel comfortable asking someone, "Hey--do you have an STD?", even if that is practical.

Isn't it courtesy to volunteer that info?

marie123

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Poor lawyer chick could miss out on a judgeship for a little Humpin' & Herpin' while we still stand one nation under a well-known (former) line-snorting drunk? *sighs*

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @marie123: I think the point here is ok, so the guy has a fever; why would he automatically assume it was because she gave him something? He couldn't have gotten a fever from anywhere else?

And did Prince Charming bother to ask the woman if she had anything *before* he decided to have sex with her, condom or not? Because it sounds to me like he wasn't real interested in ruining the mood, either.

broad

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Am I the only one who thinks the herpes thing is really f*cked up? I guess she thought, "He's using a condom...and I'm horny, so I don't want to ruin this" but still. If it was a GUY who gave a female lawyer herpes, would be pissed? Skanky is skanky. But no, I don't think he should publicly humiliate her.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> First the pharmacists refusing to hand out birth control, now the booksellers refusing to send books to prison. Only rich people should be allowed to have that kind of power.

bananappeal

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> A lawyer with VD? What's next? A porn star with fake boobs?

I also read that the sewers of DC are full of lawyers that were flushed down the toilet when they were young.

monkeyrotica

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> At the risk of being serious, I recently had a fever that turned out to be herpes from a safe sex encounter... and trust me, at least in my case, it was very obvious that it was far from a normal fever and warranted further investigation. Also in my case I wanted to kick the shit out of the person who gave it to me- and they hadn't even known they had it. but I didnt mess with thier career , I just settled for hacking thier nerve.com profile. Guess it serves me right for dating from there anyways.

jrhyskid

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @the cajun boy: @miss_msry:

For me, it was the "I was dating online, but not because I had to. Only because I wanted someone to love me for me and not my millions."

That took an inordinate amount of hubris to put in the wedding announcement.

karion

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @karion:

The riches get married to the poors. What a lark.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> My Monday just got a whole lot better.. thanks

Elle Menopi

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @karion: TOTALLY! it's become a fun little game that i like to play with myself. but it will be hard to beat the featured wedding, the one with the broadway chick, kelli o'hara, the one who had harry connick jr. singing at the wedding.

and i'm waiting to see what kind of humor, if any, can be derived from the "modern love" from this week which involved a couple torn apart by hurricane katrina. c'mon gawk, i know you can do it!!!

the cajun boy

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> He should just send all those pervs an autographed copy of the bible.

meerkat

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Lolherp

winowino

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> We wouldn't want the kiddie molesters to be distracted from the plotting and planning by reading a book. The problem with the withholding books plan is that Ms. Ohio is assuming that molesters actually feel remorse.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Like others here I read "The Ethicist" mostly as a kind of trailer for Gabe's commentary on Monday. (Same way NY's "Look Book" was good only because it provided fodder for Gawker's "Looking at the Look Book," the passing of which I still mourn.)

Seriously, though, Gabe, what's with -- "You can be a lawyer, or you can be a whore, but you cannot be both. Am I right?"

Gabe, when were you born and on what planet?

jasper

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Great karma for the recipient attorney: his job is to fuck someone over so hard they pay for the rest of their lives, now he can rilly relate.

And secondly, where was I when Paris Hilton was being considered for a judgeship? Must've been during Foxymoron week.

scroll_lock

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> I like how he called Herpes Man on his name withholding. Well done.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @the cajun boy: Yeah seriously. I'm guessing someone over there is just giving this site a little 'wink-wink how d'ya do?'

dola

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> What a way to start the week. Heh. Thanks mister.

swedish fish jr.

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @the cajun boy:

I have started to read the Sunday NYT with a Gawker filter. I, for one, can't wait for the take on this altarcation.

karion

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> I have no problem with any of this.

heatmiser

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Just send them copies of The Manny over and over and over again.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Vigilante book withholding sounds just great for filling that pesky void... thanks for this!

Products Will Save Me

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> @the cajun boy: Ditto

Helman

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> For about a minute I've written five different versions of, "Hey, that was funny." I give up: Hey, that was really funny.

edwinap

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> Ditto.

Helman

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> you just made my monday.

lalalina

]]> <![CDATA["The Unethicist: SVU"]]> when i read the thing about the lawyer and the herp i was absolutely giddy with anticipation for this morning's unethicist. you did not disappoint.

the cajun boy

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