Unfortunately, as AIDS is indescriminate, they will not only 'get rid of the scum' (as you so eloquently put it) but a whole lot of other people too.

That aside, I can certainly entertain the idea that we are subject to a 'higher being's' will - whether that be other-world, or more homegrown, remains to be seen. And it will be seen...one day.

Besides, we all know that AIDS was manufactured by chemical-warfare boffins...don't we?
And that there IS a cure for cancer...isn't there?

Of course there is...but the drug companies will lose out BIG time, so that's why the suffering will continue. Greed.

Lovely species, aren't we?
We'd rather see half the world starve, than lose a few quid from the old sky-rocket...Yep, the 'higher being' has got a loooong wait yet, methinks.

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