PHILOS 1C03 Lecture : Philosophy and Lit.-Mar.20 Blindness
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Valuables /money is exchanged for the food that ought to be distributed equally amongst all of the inmates, as food rations are not intended to be conditionally distributed. Perhaps, but not without potentially devastating consequences. Demands are clear and reasons for conflict is clear. Between the men that do not want to see their wives/female friends subjected to the shame of giving her body to strangers . : generally, someone who is forced into a situation of his/her choosing with undesirable consequences. A person injured or destroyed by circumstances beyond their control: natural disaster, accident, someone is duped, a living creature sacrificed to a deity. They are choosing their fate, choosing to feed themselves and the men, they have become the providers. The inability to resist the situation is the ultimate humiliation: rape and after: Actual rapes accompanied by violence and humiliation, Ritual cleansing of the evil to which they were subjected.