Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
By all measures men are the more violent gender.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
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