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- From: steve.gustafson@tfd.coplex.com (Steve Gustafson)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.theory
- Subject: Re: Dangerous Ideas
- Message-ID: <316.151.uupcb@tfd.coplex.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 16:04:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Ky/In PC User's Group - Louisville, KY - 502-423-8654
- Reply-To: steve.gustafson@tfd.coplex.com (Steve Gustafson)
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) sic ait:
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- RP>What is the difference between a good ruler and a bad ruler? It's
- >not the power, as that is identical. It is the idea set driving the
- >use of the power.
-
- I would tend to disagree. Less power in the hands of rulers is good;
- more power is bad.
-
- A bad ruler's rule is bad precisely because his bad ideas require much
- greater use of force to implement than the good ruler's ideas do. Bad
- rulers typically have Big Ideas about how they are going to remake human
- beings after their own image. Because people have a human nature that
- is ineradicably contrary and dooms most of these Big Ideas to failure,
- the Big Ideas lead to snoops and spies, to prison camps, and other
- typical hallmarks of a Bad Ruler's rule.
-
- Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon basically believe that all
- heterosexual sex acts are rape of one sort or another, because economic,
- class, and status differences always exist between the two participants,
- and because of these differences "consent" is impossible. In all sexual
- acts, one participant must always dominate the other. (Why this is not
- true of lesbian sex, I am not sure I have ever heard their explanation.)
-
- The most important of these differences is the power that our society
- allegedly gives all men over all women; a claim I find impossible to
- believe. (Every day, the media bring further word of the vast power
- that women wield over men. The fact that these claims are widely
- circulated is but one testament to that power.)
-
- At any rate, this all-heterosexual-sex-is-oppression doctrine sounds
- like yet another of those Big Ideas that couldn't be put into practice
- without secret sex police and concentration camps.
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- . OLX 2.2 . steve.gustafson@tfd.coplex.com hanc litteras scripsit.
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