The Psychoses (was Re: ...muck...)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Ken wrote:
>However, this is *not* what I was saying.  My reading goes something more
>like
>this: a woman who has an abortion because she takes it to be the WORD OF GOD
>(a command), and who doesn't want to have an abortion, but does so anyway,
>because it is the WORD OF GOD, against her desire not to have an abortion,
>can be said to be is acting in a psychotic manner.

Which woman ever had an abortion for the reason Ken imagines above?


>I would argue that anyone who
>supports the attitude that "X made me do it, even though I didn't want to, I
>did it anyway and enjoyed it and now I'm not responsible because 'I'
>didn't do
>it" is psychotic.

So according to Ken, _everything_ one does is an ethical choice.  So if a
woman claims that she was forced to have sex, while being unable to show
visible physical scars to point to violence and coercion, she is actually
responsible for what she was forced to do and probably enjoyed it, too.

Yoshie