Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!jfh From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape? Message-ID: <1666@browngr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 14:15:22 EST Article-I.D.: browngr.1666 Posted: Thu Dec 6 14:15:22 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:50:51 EST References: timeinc.63, <10011@watmath.UUCP> <136@ihu1m.UUCP>, <10054@watmath.UUCP> <8162@wa Lines: 8 I worry about attributing anything to genetics--it's too easy. I think of Katherine Hepburn in "The African Queen" saying "Nature is what we are put on earth to rise above", and suddenly I find myself agreeing with her. Saying "genetics made me do it" is a little like the famous "Determinism made me do it" defense used by Clarence Darrow. This approach was stifled by a judge who said "Determinism makes me sentence you to life in prison". -John Hughes