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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> Why do you want to blame anyone? It seems a sort of passive procedure,
> and seldom has any content other than "How wonderful that I am holier
> than him/her/them/you." DennisP is feeling very superior to various
> people on this list, but his blamings aren't buttering many parsnips.
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It has nothing to do with holier than thou. It's about acknowledging that the terms responsbility and accountability can't be vanquished from public discourse. Your approach leads to the "we can't blame murderers and rapists for their actions."
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> I don't disagree with Yeats's "How can you tell the dancer from the
> dance," except that in critique, polemics, etc. it is the dance
> (considered in abstraction from the dancer) that needs to be praised or
> condemned, because only the dance is repeatable.
>
> Carrol
>
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You've just absolved the dancer of intentionality. No two dances are the same.
Ian