Jim, I don't think it's a debate about "worse." I think it's a question of who is deciding on the action to take, or not to take.

I just don't think anyone except the people involved can know what is possible or, more importantly in this discussion, likely to make anything better or anyone.

I know that if my friend Amos were where the harm is being done, he would stop it. But that he would stop it, and rally the women to their power, if he could do it personally, does not equate to the simplistic suggestion of what "should" be done. He's not there to know all he would need to know, about this being the best course.

And I am still trying to figure out how nonviolent resistance to rape, in the act occurring, would seem a whole lot different to the man involved than the good-old "advice" of "Lay back and enjoy it."

~Susan