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Re: So, we need a topic...Lets try this?

Posted By: Seraph (adsl-64-171-4-240.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net)
Date: 5/28/2003 at 9:35 p.m.

In Response To: Re: So, we need a topic...Lets try this? (Phil)

: What happens if a sadist [presumably a bad thing]
: tortures [presumably a bad thing] a machoist?

: Being a sadist is not, in and of itself, a bad thing.
: It's simply a thing. Much like being angry is neither
: good nor bad. (Is anger at an injustice a bad thing?)
: It's what one does with anger, or what one does as a
: sadist, that is either good or bad.

Not really. Sadists -enjoy- inflicting pain. I would say that can be -generally- considered a bad thing.

That's the thing that bothers me about people who like being very open-minded on this...Some things, by being what they -are-, may be bad, period.

: Torture, whether inflicted by a sadist or anyone else, is
: always a bad thing, as torture by its definition is
: dependent on anguish, agony, and suffering. Not merely
: pain. If a masochist is enjoying him or herself then
: it's not really torture, though it may resemble it.

: -Phil.

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