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Comment on Modern problems by Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:50:05 +0000

Take care of yourself, Camassia! I hope you get better soon, and that you may be able to return to the blogosphere someday. Send me an e-mail, if you ever want to talk.

Comment on Muslims, Christians, honor killings, and abortion by Shame and Sex | Junior Ganymede

Shame and Sex | Junior Ganymede — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:05:11 +0000

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Comment on Still more shameless speculating about honor by Camassia

Camassia — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:08:35 +0000

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Comment on Allah: A Christian Response — part 2 by Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Revolutionary songs, African strongmen, Allah, and college

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:17:23 +0000

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Comment on Allah: A Christian Response — part 1 by Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Revolutionary songs, African strongmen, Allah, and college

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:15:05 +0000

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Comment on Allah: A Christian Response — part 1 by Camassia

Camassia — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:32:08 +0000

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Comment on Muslims, Christians, honor killings, and abortion by Camassia

Camassia — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:15:16 +0000

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Comment on Allah: A Christian Response — part 1 by Camassia

Camassia — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:46:35 +0000

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Comment on Allah: A Christian Response — part 1 by Friday links | A Thinking Reed

Friday links | A Thinking Reed — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:51:51 +0000

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Comment on On rights, entitlement, and being desired by Camassia

Camassia — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:24:25 +0000

I see the distinction you’re making, but I’m still not totally sold on the idea that a mass defriending could happen by “chance”, unless none of them knows any of the others. Say you’ve got your hypothetical “Judith,” whose friends “George” casually tells her he’d never data women his own age. Judith goes and confides in two of her girlfriends how upset she was by this, and how she won’t be friends with George any more, and they decide they don’t like him much either. And the two girlfriends’ husbands notice their coldness towards George, and they figure since they’re married to middle-aged women themselves they don’t really agree with him, so they also start to become estranged from George. And then this one buddy of George’s who’s been angling for a job at one of the husbands’ firm notices the anti-George faction forming, and decides he’d rather spend time with them than with George. And then a mutual friend of George and Judith is upset that the old gang is splitting apart, so he goes to George and says, “Dude, your dating policy is really upsetting people. Can’t you just try seeing a woman your own age?” And then he goes to Judith and says, “Can’t you cut George a little slack?”

Now, technically the last guy is the only one directly interfering with the “rights” of George and Judith, but I have trouble seeing him as the transgressor here. Once George and Judith fell out, their friends felt a need to take sides, even though nobody said, “Hey, let’s gang up on George and make him date older women!” That’s why, when we’re talking about informal social norms instead of laws, I have trouble drawing a sharp distinction between what “society” does and what individuals do. And unconscious social norms can be at least as powerful as those overtly held up as such.