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Not even quite scattershot vengeance

Posted by luno in Relativism, General (Thursday February 17, 2005 at 10:09 pm)
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This head-hunting that takes place on the Northwest Coast after a death is no matter of blood revenge or of organized violence. There is no effort to tie the subsequent killing with any responsibility on the part of the victim for the death of a person who is being mourned. A chief whose son has […]