Is it equal opportunity stoning. Are male adulterers also stoned? And women allowed equally with men to stone adulterers?
Cheers, k hanly
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--- On Sat, 7/4/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics
> To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 11:52 PM
> On Jul 4, 2009, at 11:26 PM, martin
> <mschiller at pobox.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 4, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> >
> >> Stoning adulterers is not done out of some
> individualist capitalist impulse.
> >
> > It's not done to retain power?
>
> Not the power of capitalists as such, no. Nor do the
> stoners stone because they gain something from the
> particular death of the stoned (at least in the ideal
> instance.) It stands to patriarchy as punishing the thief
> does to property; a selfless act that preserves the social
> contract.
>
> Of course this might have some terrorizing function that
> helps keep the current stateholders in such a position, but
> I don't see what capitalists would gain from executing
> adulterers specifically.
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