dzd@cosivax.UUCP (Dean Douthat) (08/03/85)
In message <6443@ucla-cs.ARPA> Eric McColm writes: >To coin a word: "rapism", the disorder that both allows and compels certain >men to rape. Very little is known about it. It is possible the rapist has >a view of the world that is very different from that of others. Understanding >this world view could provide the basis for eliminating rape, at last and >forever. In Moliere's play "La Malade' Imaginaire", the protagonist is a "learned doctor". When asked what in opium puts people to sleep, he "explained" it is virtus dormitiva [Latin: sleep-producing power]. Other examples: Aether, phlogiston (heat flow), ascorbic (no scurvy) acid. No doubt the good doctor would be right at home with illness theories of criminality. -- Dean Z. Douthat ______________________________________________________________________________ I have no connection with COSI except as a guest on their local network ______________________________________________________________________________ If one were to bring together all customs considered sacred by some group and then to take away all customs considered immoral by some group, nothing would remain. Anacharsis