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To: LindyBill who wrote (246528)4/19/2008 9:06:58 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 793772
 
Until it's investigated, how can you ascertain force?

And also, an interesting question is whether, because of the whole "brainwashing" aspect of the cult (something you as an agnostic or atheist should appreciate), "force" isn't as clearcut as it might be. If young girls have this belief inculcated from birth, then probably force as we're defining it isn't going to be apparent.

It's really a fascinating conundrum, Lindy, because I really am a libertarian by nature, but when a group develops a patriarchal, punitive hierarchy that denies freedom to others, then there is a problem.

And I repeat, that younger women have been married off to older men for hundreds of years, does not persuade me. Women as property has been the rule those hundreds of years. Our coming into equality is a very recent event in history.
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