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Dear Doc
It might interest you to know that the word comes from the 'Sanskrit' root 'himsa', meaning violence, and the a- prefix, as in many Indo-European languages, negates it. The negative, again as is usual in English, does not mean anti- or opposed to it, as much as renouncing it. Similarly, amoral means someone or some act, that has no morals, as opposed to immoral which means against that which is moral.
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