Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: Rape (The nature of Reality) Message-ID: <1076@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 21:31:36 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.1076 Posted: Wed Oct 30 21:31:36 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 02:16:23 EST Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 35 Subject: Re: Re: Rape (The nature of Reality) > While I admire Farzin's optimism about all our detective > abilities, I can't bring myself to agree with him. I don't > believe that everyone can gain an accurate impression of a > person all the time; ... I am not really being "optimistic" here and I don't believe what you call "our detective abilities" will always work either. What I did say was that many times it is the best thing (or the only thing) you can rely on. > And as for my mistrusting everyone > (or at least all men), I refer Farzin to Jeff Lichtman's > well-worded reply to Ray on that subject. It's not that I go > around my life looking at everyone with a penis and expecting > that at some point it will be used against me; it's just that I > live my life in a way that doesn't discount that possibility. > And, as Charlie says above, I've found no comfortable alternative. > Enough said, anyway. > Ellen Eades If you think this is the best way to protect yourself, that's fine. That's what you should do. But even well-protected castles have doors to the outside world. That's because they want to keep out the bad guys but they also want to let in a good guy every now and then. Openness can compromise security but being closed can be a lot worse. So, you are right. There is no "comfortable alternative". I suggest you drop "comfortable" and just look for an "alternative". Farzin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have set out on a road without a lamp and the moon, the moon, the kind female, was always there."