Now everyone on this list, except for ravi, are arguing that #3 and # 4 and #5 and #6 are the same.
[WS:] I take exception to this. I did not argue they are the same, I argued for the position that implies to the contrary. I said that BD is unlikely to occur in a fully egalitarian society because there is no social script for strongly hierarchical, asymmetric power relationships. Your number 5 and 6, however, could easily happen in egalitarian societies, because their attractiveness (sexual and otherwise) does not fundamentally depend on fetishized power asymmetry.
Wojtek ***********************************
Yes indeed. BD would probably have a hard time maintaining relevance in a society of political-economic equality--a communist society.
Regards, Mike B)
Watch the communist manifestoon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oGIffyVVk
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