Scientist looking into the structure of MAIDS noted its three part
structure:
> (1) Implant a doubt in ones own ability to perceive reality.
>
> (2) Get one to accept the existence of a Higher Power.
>
> (3) Follow.
A bright young professor realized that step #3 was in fact a little more
complicated and re-wrote it as:
(3a) Link increased self-confidence and conviction with this Higher Power
(3b) Subject will follow higher power as long as increased
self-confidence is needed.
Once he had seen this inter-relation the professor imedeately dashed off
to the lab and, by separating the first section from the rest, created an
altered MAIDS virus with this new structure:
(1) Provisionally accept an undefined non-given, <X>.
(2) Link increased self-confidence and purpose with <X>.
(3) Repeat until desired self esteem is established.
This brother to the traditional MAIDS virus shows great promise for ending
suicides within our lifetimes. Provided, of course, that users understand
that <X> is a means not an end.
-Prof. Tim