The Uncertain Virgin (was- Evan & Hugh)

[David Morris]

Very nice, and very well said.  I am further silent only to not diminish the 
cache of this commendation.

DM

>From: jporter As will become clearer later when our sensiblities are 
>subjected to what
>seems like the morally reprehensible activities described by Kurt, filtered
>through Stencil, a choice might be offered between evil and inanimacy. The
>two are not to be confused. Only the animate are capable of evil. Inanimacy
>is a poor mirror, after all. When it comes to suffering, or fear, or pain-
>only the living can reflect a grimmace, choose to be controlled, 
>acknowledge
>kinship, beg for mercy, etc, while the inanimate is a tar-baby that can't
>punch back, or even whimper. But there is another dimensional axis besides
>animate v. inanimate, and that is free-will versus determinism or
>predestination. What is the meaning of "animacy" if history is
>predetermined?
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