"I think the line between insensitive courting and harassment is not exactly clear-cut. I think the line between stirring erotic play and objectification is not exactly clear-cut. I think the line between frivolous thoughts or conduct and insult and humiliation is not exactly clear-cut. I think the line between a casual or playful light touch and the violation of someone else's physical autonomy is not exactly clear-cut. I think that even the line between rash talk and being offensive is not exactly clear-cut. Moreover, I think that all these lines change somewhat from time to time, which makes the question of borders even more difficult and complex than it already is."
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"This all-too-human God does not exist, or so argues the seventeenth-century philosopher Bento de Spinoza. Such a divinity is a superstitious fiction, he claims, grounded in the irrational passions of human beings who daily suffer the vicissitudes of nature. Feeling lost and abandoned in an insecure world that does not cater to their wishes and yet, at the same time finding in that world an order and convenience that seems more than accidental, they imagine a governing Spirit that, on the model of human agency, directs all things toward certain ends."
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