tsatske -> RE: Internal Enslavement (7/24/2008 6:22:34 AM)
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I'm not saying it will always happen. I'm saying it can happen, and that for it to happen even once is an unacceptable situation. There for ANYTHING that creates the possibility of a person being in an abusive relationship and not being able to leave that relationship is inherently wrong. Unless you can prove it will NEVER happen, then the only rational approach is to avoid any situation completely My mother, to my best guess, anyway, had sex with three men in her life, two of whom she was married to. Even though both her husbands were raging and abusive alcoholic assholes (not talking down about my beloved Dad here, he'd say the same thing about himself. He never hit her, but there is more than one way to abuse. He is now sober for over a dozen years, and a much better human being without the instant asshole additive). Yet, she managed to contract HPV and get cervical cancer. It was caught in time and didn't kill her, but cerical cancer kills women ALL THE TIME, so it could have. with ONLY having the most responsible sex you can imagine, my mother managed to get a deadly disease. This is not hypothetical, i absolutely assure you that other women have gotten this, and other STDs, with even less sluttiness. In Africa, women who have NEVER had sex with ANYONE but the ONE man to whom they are married, and that not till after the wedding - regularly manage to contract AIDS. Clearly, this can happen - it does happen. And it can happen here too. If my youngest sister, who was a virgin on her wedding night, and whose groom was too - well, what if her groom had had ONE previous lover, a couple of years earlier, and that lover had ONE previous lover, ect, ect - She could have gotten HPV, just like our mother. It is clear to me that the only rational approach is to NEVER have sex, of any kind, EVER. If even one person dies from this irresponsible act called sex, it just isn't worth it. Oh, I know, that is different. Because that is something YOU want for your life to be more fulfilled, were as I.E. is something YOU don't feel called to. But the examples are endless. certain factories make chemicals where, if working in the factory, a pregnant woman has a chance of having a malformed fetus. I mean, if it happens to even ONE woman - and women do get pregnant on accident, with all known methods of birth control - except total abstence, and they lie about that, or give in to spontanious breaking it, or don't understand what 'abstence' is ( a real problem, i lecture Christain Teenage children, and, surprisingly, others - even adults - on this subject all the time). The only answer is to refuse to emply women. (this was a real court case in a real factory, in a small southern town, in the 80's, btw) My point - no, it is not okay to ask me, (or, worse, think you should ahve the right to demand) to limit my activities based on the 'worst case scenario'. Is it okay with me if, somewhere, one slave finds herself feeling that she is abused, and no longer consenting, but can't find it in herself to leave? actually, yes - just like it is okay with me if my son, whose mother (me) is a Quaker, chooses to become a Marine and go off to war (where he now is). Just like it is okay with me if another son flies to HongKong a month after the Hong Kong goverment detained American citizens and was accused of torture. Just like it is okay with me if someone decides to climb a mountain, even though some people have died, and probably slow, unplesant deaths, making that same choice. All choices have 'worst case scenarios', and I believe people have the right to make choices about their life anyway.
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