[Hardy-l] Tess' freedom

[Rosemarie Morgan]

This makes better sense -- the physical act versus the emotional one. The 
latter being far more "elusive" as you put it Keith.  But I never suggested 
that we have a "greater propensity to kill" - that was not a claim or even 
an idea I entertained. Far from it. Initially I was simply struck by the 
mystics' many separate words for  love -- (as the Inuit have different 
words for snow, as Chuck reminds us) . Where we would say "brotherly love" 
or "erotic love" (all two words the one modifying the other)  they use one. 
Nor am I sure that saying "I'm fond of you" is quite the same thing as 
saying "I love you " (which some men, for example would find awkward to say 
to another heterosexual male).  Is "I desire  you" the same as saying "I 
love you," and could you say this to your uncle?
  That was the gist of it, on my part.

Cheers
Rosemarie

t 10:36 Aa 11/26/2008, you wrote:
>Surely there is a fairly major logical problem with this claim.  Any 
>imbalance in the quantity of words available to describe loving and 
>killing is related not to our greater propensity to kill
>Best,
>
>Keith
>