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Date Posted: 18:26:37 01/27/08 Sun
Author: Cara
Subject: Re: I see Satan's second and third desire
In reply to: Erin Risch 's message, "Re: I see Satan's second and third desire" on 18:08:14 01/21/08 Mon

I haven't got any more Milton to add to this just yet, but I thought I'd point out an example of the reverse mimetic desire you last mentioned, Erin, where you deprive others of things out of envy. Two girls from Bangladesh lived with me for awhile. They had turned down the wrong suitors, who in turn threw battery acid at them. They came to the US for burn treatment. When 20/20 did a story on them, they investigated the acid practice, and found it to be horrifyingly common. Thousands of girls get burned every year, and a diminutive fraction of one per cent of attackers actually do time for it, mostly because of a corrupt court system. I'm not sure this could be called a Scapegoat mechanism, because women aren't such a minority, but an uncooperative woman could be viewed as disrupting society's order and the distinctions that go along with their roles as housewives.

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