From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   There have been people saying that I am evil. I have heard it said that the   
   power to define is the ultimate power. You have successfully defined the   
   opposition as evil, you’ve won half the war.   
      
   Of course sometimes things that get called evil really are evil. Nazism comes   
   to mind. However in many other situations that is not the case.   
      
   So there are people in conservatism who say that the liberals are evil. In   
   fact most liberals come from the right place. They don’t like seeing the   
   worker getting mistreated. They don’t like seeing the women getting   
   mistreated. They don’t like to    
   see terrible things being done to nature and animals. These people are better,   
   not worse, than the average person.   
      
   Are there bad people on the Left? Well, there are Andrea Dworkin and Catherine   
   McKinnon. However I don’t see them as evil, just wrong. There are two kinds   
   of wrongdoing: deliberate and non-deliberate. The first is a result of   
   wilfully wrongful action,    
   and the second is a result of error and ignorance. Both have to be seen for   
   what they are and then correctly confronted.   
      
   Many people who do wrong things think that they are right. The solution is not   
   calling them evil but correcting their errors. This can have two possible   
   outcomes. One is that the person will realize the mistake and correct it. The   
   other is that the    
   person will not be credible to others, and the person’s power over others   
   will be curtailed.   
      
   With people such as Andrea Dworkin and Catherine McKinnon, the solution is to   
   correct their errors. Of these there are plenty, and they are obvious. Sex   
   industry is not the reason for rape; in Congo, Afghanistan and Bosnia during   
   the war there was no sex    
   industry but there were vast amounts of brutal rapes in all three countries.   
   If heterosexual sex is rape then you owe your life to rape, and if family is   
   bad then you owe your life to something bad. Catherine McKinnon may not   
   herself be receptive to    
   critical input, but people over whom she stands to have influence are. When   
   faced with a wrong belief, the solution is putting in the intellectual effort   
   to refute it. That may or may not affect the source; it does however stand to   
   affect the audience.   
      
   I have put in vast effort into understanding all sorts of problems. I care   
   about all sorts of people, including people from whom I have nothing to gain.   
   I do not claim to be inerrant; I claim to be well-intentioned. I have no ill   
   will toward anyone, not    
   even Catherine McKinnon. I want to see their errors corrected for the benefit   
   of the rest of the world.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)