Lacking a cure forAIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but also in classrooms. Those withAIDS or those at high risk ofAIDS suffer prejudice; they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a "bravado" that could be fatal.AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism.Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted by pre-existing social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university level undergraduateAIDS course, with its two important aims:
To address the fact theAIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure of societal collapse. The proper response toAIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society. To describe how AIDS tests institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political system, science, the legal establishment, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manageAIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat ofAIDS describes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civilizeD、AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry of modern society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes thatAIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions.Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired byAIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem ofAIDSEven more basic, who shall formulate a national policy onAIDS The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten the individual and the societal, or public responses toAIDS. Why did the author offer theAIDS course A、He wanted to teach people about a cure forAIDS. B.People need to be taught how to avoid those withAIDS. C.He wanted to teach the students thatAIDS resulted from moral failure. D.People take improper attitudes towardsAIDS and those with or at high risk ofAIDS.