Discussions of free choice and not making judgement on the health or wisdom of those choices reminds me of my wife's master thesis. Let us consider women who return to their abusers after being at a shelter for battered women. Is that just a healthy free choice? (And, for arguements sake, let us not include in the question those rare instances where it happens in a context of both parties working very hard to stop the pattern of abuse and trying to remake their relationship into a healthy one. Lets just talk about the overwhelming majority of women who go back to something that turns into the same old same old after a bit.)
I'm not advocating criminalizing battered women, calling them sinners, etc. My sympathies are certainly with them...and I want them to suffer no more than they already have. My question is would you consider this a healthy choice by a free woman who reasonably decides that she wants that life. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
