On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jim Burnes wrote:
>Guy likes a girl. Wants to have sex with her. She doesn't like him
>and does not want to associate with him because he's a boor,
>unintelligent, ugly whatever. She shuns him (as does every other
>woman in the village).
Shunning is rarely a problem if it's not concerted. Then it can be a great
problem indeed. If, and only if, it is, you have harm to the basic rights of
a person and you can establish causality, we are on a fine line. I *am*
sensible enough not to confuse satisfying arbitrary whims with e.g. keeping
someone alive.
Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university
