Ian Murray wrote:
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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."
What we want to do is stop raping and murdering. And we can certainly condemn the actions without making moral judgments of the actors. I don't see what's gained.
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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.
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> > Carrol
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> You've just absolved the dancer of intentionality. No two dances are the
> same.
No two dances are _exactly_ the same. To the extent that we can talk about them, they must at some level be the same.
Carrol
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> Ian