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originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
originally posted by: AgentShillington
By definition, rapists must rape. If they weren't raping, they wouldn't be rapists.
If you rape once, you are a rapist. One can try to not do it again.
By that definition, if you lie once, you are a liar, and if you steal once you are a thief. I guess I just don't label people like that.
moving on.
Rape is a just a tad more brutal than lying and stealing? NO?
You can play semantics all you want but, this isn't what the thread is about.
If you rape a woman, you take a part of her soul. If you lie to her, you take a part of her trust. If you steal from her, again, you lose her trust.
Soul/trust.
What's more valuable to a person? I'd rather lose my trust any day as opposed to a part of who I am....my soul
Can you prove that rape causes a person to lose part of their soul? Can you prove there is a soul? When people state what appear to be opinions as facts, I like to see some empirical data ;-)
That being said, I do agree, rape is vile, it's generally a brutal one-on-one attack. But let's step it up, let's say your business partners cheat you in a business deal and you lose millions, how does that effect you, your family, your extended family, etc.? What are the psychological ramifications of that kind of rape (rape is the theft of your body temporarily)? How about politicians, changing laws and generally ef'ing up society, sending jobs overseas and destroying the economy, how many lives does that destroy, how many suicides, how many broken families? Now an order of magnitude greater, bankers destroying whole countries over greed and imaginary fiat currency, how many people does that effect? How many people commit suicide, lose hope, have their families torn apart and irreparably destroyed by cheating business partners, scumbag politicians and corrupt bankers?
I see opinions on here for punishments for rape that really are disproportionate to the actual one-on-one crime, especially since none of these ef'ing bankers, politicians or cheating business partners every seem to go to jail. And if they do, what is it, house arrest, a couple of years, a bit of probation for destroying tens to hundreds of thousand lives? I agree with the more "radical" approach above in another post, a 25 cent bullet saves roughly 3 to 6 million dollars over a 20 year period.
Now what do we do about the politicians and bankers ;-)
Cheers - Dave
While I appreciate your input, I don't think bankers and business partners quite fit into this topic. Definitely not politicians unless they are passing laws in regards to rape.
I get your point but, no. Just no.
This is about rape. Not finances, bankers or politics. Although, again I see your point.
I absolutely cannot prove that a soul exists. What I suppose I meant by a soul was, who we are as a person. It takes away a part of who you were before it happened.
After enduring a rape, a person will not and can not ever be the same person they were before it happened.
It causes one to lose a part of themselves. That is what I meant without getting all philosophical or spiritual about the existence or, lack there of, of souls.
I don't think people really realize what that sort of violation truly does to a woman. I'm with you, sterilize and castrate.
It's only fair in my opinion given what is taken from a woman that endures such trauma.
It never goes away and you become a different person because of another person's selfish actions.
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
Even worse is the stigma surrounded by reporting the assault. Women are terrified of reporting it because they blame themselves or get blamed by authorities.
originally posted by: InhaleExhale
a reply to: MagesticEsoteric
I don't think people really realize what that sort of violation truly does to a woman. I'm with you, sterilize and castrate.
So if a man gets raped by a women is the violation on the same level in your opinion?
It's only fair in my opinion given what is taken from a woman that endures such trauma.
It never goes away and you become a different person because of another person's selfish actions.
OK I get it.
However, open it up to the whole issue and that being rape in general.
You want to focus on men raping women for personal reasons maybe, doing that here will only get you frustrated and maybe upset by what you read.
Its about control and taking away free will.
originally posted by: Pimpintology
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
Even worse is the stigma surrounded by reporting the assault. Women are terrified of reporting it because they blame themselves or get blamed by authorities.
Uh... I dunno where you come from but in the USA when you report a rape they usually arrest the guy and figure out the details later while the female is at the hospital doing a rape kit. Your assumption couldn't be more incorrect. Authorities have no bone in the fight and don't blame the female if anything there are a lot of cases that are falsely reported and the female never gets in trouble for reporting false allegations. Never have I ever seen a case where they blame a female for being assaulted. That is a very broad assumption and in no way fact.