re MDMD: America

[Doug Millison]

Good point, Scott, but non-violenc is not passive or non-reactive.  You can
physically prevent somebody else from harming a third party without
actually harming the potential perpetrator.  In Dixon's case, it reads as
if the slave owner ran his face into Dixon's raised fist -- that's hardly a
punch.  Certanly Dixon feels many impulses and motivations before and
during his action -- moral outrage at the treatment of people as property
significant among them.  Even if  he feels impelled to physical assault or
even murder, the important thing, in my opinion, is that he refrains from
doing so.

At 8:13 PM -0500 3/6/02, Scott Badger wrote: [...]