> The other concerns Ted's remarks about Kovel's
> "thoughtful" article on S&M -- I thought it was just
> high class Ick. There is no evidence, just sheer
> speculation, that kink is somehow associated with
> class despair or rubbish of that sort, and dragging
> Hegel into it is obscurantism. Reminds me of Stalinist
> doubletalk about how homosexuality is a symptom of
> bourgeois decadence or some such. Chris is more
> honest. He's just creeped out.
What is the implication of the judgment that "It's wicked to inflict unwanted pain on the nonconsenting" for the judgment that "those who do ill should be made to suffer"?
Ted