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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (14872)	5/29/2001 6:29:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

." Some people would see the ten commandments in school as doing serious harm, or slavery, or abortion. What say you. I had in mind physical harm, not necessarily life threatening but serious. I originally chose the word, injury, but changed it to harm to include the burning down of the Louvre. I don't think violence is appropriate if there's not an immediate physical threat to people or irreplaceable property. When someone is a breacher I agree that it is best to avoid them completely. The problem comes when they are entangled in a relationship with you like as young sibling or coparent or coworker or something. I don't think anyone can put up with breaches of trust and retain their own dignity. If you can't distance yourself, then you have to confront the individual in some form or fashion to either stop the breaches or make yourself whole. The one you would think of as "oppressive" and so worthy of denigration might be someone I admire greately and vice versa. I think that if one is being abused, one need not be too concerned about maintaining the dignity of the abuser. And I don't think you have any business admiring someone who would abuse you or who would abuse me. Abusive behavior is wrong. Moral people don't admire it. Karen