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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!lunatic
- From: lunatic@diku.dk (Philip Hoelgaard)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Sexual drive
- Message-ID: <9211071947.AA12631@panix.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 19:47:03 GMT
- Sender: lunatic@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
- Lines: 25
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov7.134415.10980@odin.diku.dk>
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- I didn't see anything to differ with in what you posted. It seems to
- me that what people today say they want from other people is abstract
- freedom and equality, and the fulfilment of whatever desires they may
- happen to have. So sex roles have to go, because they limit our
- ability to do what we happen to feel like doing, and because they are
- unequal.
-
- The problem, though, is that if all people look for from each other is
- fulfilment of their own desires, and their idea of morality is limited
- to the proposition that no-one should have any sort of advantage over
- anyone else in the common struggle for what each happens to desire,
- then life becomes intolerable.
-
- Man is a social animal. In the past sex roles and the family connected
- man to other people and made a decent life possible. I don't see
- anything that can replace them.
-
- On a less general point -- why do you call yourself "lunatic"?
-
- --
- Jim Kalb "Not drunk is he who from the floor
- (jk@panix.com) can rise alone and still drink more.
- But drunk is he who prostrate lies
- Without the power to drink or rise." (Clough)
-