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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Like you, I hate the notion of people being bought and sold. The mirror-image of our goodness is our evil. Humanity is making its path through this place and not very well in some cases. The no-reflection thing was yet another allusion to it being just us here.
The woman selling her niece we cannot judge unless we understand her motives. I believe we can judge the buyer, understanding his?
Beyond that, my apologies, ma'am!
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Thank you.
No apologies needed!
I understand the whole good & evil, yin yang, there can be no good without evil concept. I just don't fully accept it. To do so, I believe, absolves those who do horrible things from responsibility to an extent. The devil made me do it, buah ha ha ha ha. Bullshit. It's all conscious choices. And yes, there a million variables in this big blue world (to steal a T Waits phrase
), some choices are harder made than others. And it had occurred to me that we know very little about the aunt's motives. She may have thought she was selling the girl into marriage or labor. Not that that's good, but different than we're all assuming here. As for the rapist, yes, there is not much that can excuse his actions other than an obvious obsessive mental disorder. So maybe all these variables coming together and resulting in the brutality suffered by this young girl represent the workings of a kind of evil in this world. Yet the choices that allowed it to visit itself upon this girl were made by people who could have chosen differently.
Whatever all that means...I have to get back to work.
