So, you think sex is brutal? ;- > Or you think Emma thought it was? That is not my impression of her view on the subject. But --watching your kids grow -- don't you think that morality is a rather late developmental stage? Of course so is an interest in sex. My impreesion of the little ones is that they tend to be cheerfully amoral, fairly selfish, and casually cruel.
"Brutal" seems to to me to go too far. jks
--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >"It is essential that we realize once and for all
> that man is much
> > >more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The
> former is inherent,
> > >the other is grafted on." -- Emma Goldman
>
> As much as I like Goldman (her two-volume autobio is
> must reading), I cannot
> go along with this morality grafting biz. Are
> kindness, sympathy, empathy,
> forgiveness and love merely electro-magnetic
> impulses, or artificial
> constructs that we "graft" on to our true brutal
> selves? Watching my two
> kids grow, I'd have to say no.
>
> DP
>
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