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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > "Jane" and "Joe" are in a relationship that is no longer working out.
> > Staying together is causing a fair degree of pain and stress for them;
> > seperating will also couse a fair degree of pain and stress. Neither action
> > has the option of 'harming none'.
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> Well, I think you are stressing the word "harm" a bit here.
Hmm, I don't think so. My understanding is that most of the "harm" modern
Wiccan philosophy means to address is emotional and spiritual in nature,
rather than physical, although I'll admit that I haven't made an in-depth
study of it.
> Everyone knows
> it takes two to tango, but only one to stop the dance. Them's the breaks...
>
> I'll take this opportunity to quote Mr. Crowley:
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> "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
> Love is the law, love under will."
>
> While it's probably best not to discuss the meaning of this passage
> overmuch, I take it to mean simply that there is always a push and pull to
> things, there is always opposition to any action -- the trick is to weigh
> the relative harm produced by an action against the relative need to perform
> the action.
>
> Personal will and desire comes first, guided and tempered by love. This is
> pretty much what everyone does in real life anyway. Well, unless one
> happens to be possessed of an anti-social personality...
Yup. I wasn't disavowing the principle, I was pointing out that any
principle so reduced may be excellent for getting the basic idea across, but
is still less than the idea, and usually easily subjected to nit-picking.
James
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