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Thought experiment: suppose you support slave labour. You're th captain of a trireme. Below deck, 170 oarsmen row yr boat to war. Never mind -- Wikipedia says that, contrary to popular belief, triremes' crews were composed of free men. Suppose you're th pharaoh's niece walking in th shade of a palm frond held by a nervous Israelite girl
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there's a typo here, right? You're saying that th consequences of abstraction are bigger for crime and war than for sex. I'm inclined to agree, especially since I've never been to war or been caught committing a felony. Many of th complications that arise from abstracting "sex" are trivial. On th other hand, sexual problems tend to multiply outward and become other types of problems. @ th risk of pushing another bad button, I submit that rape is as much a "sex" problem as it is a "crime" problem, and that even wars that are fought almost entirely by men have sexual underpinnings. Yes, if I say that th wars on terror boil down to Bikinis vs Burqas, you're justified in calling that an offensive oversimplification. Likewise when I compare black crime to political activism. Mebbe ah coulda stated that differently: "Black crime has a political component, independent of individual intention." To me, my ideas on war & crime aren't evasions of complexity or endorsements of moral relativism; they're an attempt to view th CHAOS of human activity from a wide-angle perspective. Th anthill looks one way when my eye's right up on it and another way when I'm standing up, and th two views aren't necessarily irreconcilable
In th case of black man rapes white girl, yes, I see what you're getting @ -- political fashion leads to blowing up an open-and-shut sexual assault case into a media sensation w/ unnecessary legislative outcomes and potential miscarriages of justice. I'm looking forward to yr future book on this and related matters; yr skepticism of abstraction lends yr own abstractions a compelling gravity
--mza.
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