----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: Re: Violence, was Re: Allies and opponents of US fall silent
> >Except violence wouldn't be violence if persons-bodies weren't
> >extinguished. You're too far over on the agent-structure spectrum
> >Carrol, issues of supervenience aside. It's precisely the
> >dehumanization and the institutional and or groupthink driven
denial
> >that it takes place as a condition of inaugarating aggression
that's
> >at issue.
>
> Excessive subordination & vague pronoun reference (what takes place
> "as a condition of inaugurating aggression" -- violence?) make
> communication difficult.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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"Kill 'em all and let god sort 'em out" is an example of the dehumanization that takes place prior to enjoining others to engage in violence, whether by the State or a group of non-State actors.
Ian