... external. An action which comes from an agent who may be said to be free must then be free of constraint from an outside party, say a man with a gun to the agents head. But in defining freedom, Ayer touches upon a notion that I take to be central to the notion of free ... a decision, and yet I still want to say that, barring certain circumstances, this was still a rational action. I want to say that, assuming the man doesn't suffer from any physical affliction that has impaired his judgement (i.e. schizophrenia or some other mental illness), and that he is operating only upon what Dani...

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... /reality, to feel, to remember, and to mourn for its pain. On the other hand, a witness to torture/violence, can only stand at the edge of that "pain", that no-man's-land of unimaginable, unspeakable horror and terror, that their mind to some degree have not ever touched or assimilated before. Examine the psychological stance of a raped victim and a witness of ... rape. Rape is a bodily violation that abuses the victim's body and mind. Because rape makes the victim invisible, it does this literally, the perpetrator " covers " her, and figuratively, the rape destroys her self-image, her s...

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