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- From: wkl1@ra.msstate.EDU (Wing-Keong Loke the consummate chronic prevaricator)
- Subject: Re: camille paglia
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:04:18 GMT
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- In article <1ebqqnINNpb5@agate.berkeley.edu> uunet!idacrd!desj@ncar.UCAR.EDU (David desJardins) writes:
- >Camille Paglia is an anti-feminist who calls herself various other
- >Her moral philosophy seems to be based on a notion of natural law. From
- >the facts that men dominate and rape women in pre-civilized societies
- >(one can argue about whether this is a fact, but she takes it as one),
- >she concludes that rape and domination are natural aspects of the
- >relationship between men and women. Of course even she does not
- >conclude from this that they are good things. But she does conclude
- >that because they are natural, it is unreasonable to expect them to be
- >eliminated, and anyone who behaves as if they do not exist is behaving
- >irrationally and deserves whatever they get.
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- Her theory is easily shot down: don't
- people commit murder in prehistoric times as a matter of
- natural law?
- --wkl--
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