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To: betty boop
But what if the man is a child rapist, or a cannibal?

Surely you understand that these things initiate force.

83 posted on 09/23/2003 10:25:09 AM PDT by OWK
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To: OWK
Surely you understand that these things initiate force.

And so they are wrong solely by virtue of the fact that they require initiation-of-force in order to take place?

Is there no other way to understand the wrongfulness of child rape, for instance, than as a projection of force? The force part doesn't seem to be the only, or even the main reason why such acts horrify us; what horrifies is that someone would choose to damage a helpless, innocent child (physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually) simply for his own cheap self-gratification.

The force part is a necessary, yet comparatively negligible part of the great enormity of such crimes. It is the means to an end; yet in the final analysis, it is the end that horrifies us.

89 posted on 09/23/2003 11:08:45 AM PDT by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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