Date sent: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:12:04 EST
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Subject: Re: Rights vs. responsibilities/don't compromise
yourself!/Making exceptions!
> In a message dated 98-12-05 09:56:45 EST, you write:
>
> << I mean you are not an exotic
> dancer yourself I take it? To have a holier than thou attitude is fine if
> you know everything about everything that a person does and why they do it,
> if you don't I think it is quite problematic. >>
>
> Hi!
>
> Sandy, no I am not - not in public anyway (ha ha!). Really, I think erotic
> things are beautiful - the human body is so beautiful sometimes- so
> interesting - and nudity is so sensual -
> I personally love erotic art - not pornography as depicting the body as an
> instrument of pleasure - but art - portraying the body as beautiful, sensual,
> etc.
> But, to put a price tag on human body - that's another story - If God wanted
> us to have price tags we would have been born with them.
>
> As for putting forth dangerous exceptions - When it is OK to sell yourself
> short? I say never! Especially not for money. When she indicated that she
> knew or she felt she was compromising herself - right there her instincts are
> telling her that she is doing something wrong - So to that I say stop if you
> can! Find healthy alternatives, don't compromise yourself - especially not
> for money. I know that education is expensive - but I know people who worked
> 3 jobs at once to put themselves through college - none of the jobs
> compromised their principles! Honestly, if she felt she was doing something
> beautiful, bringing happiness to men with her dancing and she felt no remorse
> - then there really is no problem in a way. Yet, by her own omission there is
> a problem - she is compromising what she believes - She probably believes that
> what she is doing is hurting women in the greater scheme of things - it can or
> it can not - depends on how you look at it.
>
> It's like this:
>
> It doesn't matter if it's right
> It doesn't matter if it's fair
> It doesn't matter if you don't like
> It doesn't matter if it hurts you advertantly or inadvertantly
> Why - because I am making a lot of money doing it!
> The dangerous exception is this: it's OK because I am making a lot of money
> doing it and to heck with what it does to you!
>
> That is what the lumber companies, papermills, gas and oil companies, mining
> companies and everyone else who is tearing up the Earth for greed is saying to
> you - and what do you say to that? Oh come on have some integrity for nature?
> - why not say that to humans? Afterall, we are nature in nature!
>
> Also, hitman for the mob, men who batter seals over the head, men who kill
> tigers for the bones - All for money - it's Ok to be bad because of money?
> Because money brings happiness? Or is it love first - to heck with how much
> money is to be had!
>
> Peace!
> Angela
>
Tell it to the televangelists who demand retired people's Social
Security checks in the name of Jesus! Joe
>
>
