MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

At 11:44 AM +1100 8/24/02, jbor wrote:
>The whip doesn't hate; it "express[es]" hate (cf. the whip described as "an
>*expression* of ill feeling" at 696.7, my emphasis).



And the difference between "hating" and "expressing hate" would be?

That's OK, here's an out you can take:

But, from another point of view, you're "right" -- whatever that might mean
in this discussion. Whips (guns, V2 rockets,  etc.) don't hurt people,
people hurt people -- its a tool, to be used for ill or...oops.....good?

The whip doesn't "care" who uses it, or, put another way, struggling wth
the English here , amigo, it doesn't matter who uses the whip, as long as
the whip gets used.  (Whip as masochist!)

That's why -- maybe -- Dixon chooses not to use the whip here, but instead
only takes it away from the slave-driver, to prevent its further use, there
being no good use of such a Whip -- Dixon choosing to stop the cycle of
violence instead of continuing that cycle, the best way to use this tool,
this technology, being not to use it at all. IMHO.

both/and

Cloud/whale

whale's tale









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