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fandomsecrets2016-06-07 05:18 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2016-06-07 05:18 pm
[ SECRET POST #3443 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3443 ⌋
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Early because it's going to be a late day. :c
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Well, I said a lot of stupid stuff today. I apologise.
I do think that multiple rapists should serve consecutive sentences, and that could stack up to many years in prison.
Let's just say I'm just glad he's being sentenced at all. And, thinking in terms of deterrence, I thought, "Maybe six months is a deterrent to him doing it again. Why don't we use that option more often?"
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But if we're defining punishment by standards of vengeance, coming up with a standard of what a man should go through in revenge for being raped is hard. Some large minority of rapes result in pregnancy absent medical intervention. You can scare a man with a lot of things, but pregnancy isn't one of them.
I wasn't weighting that well: Living in a society with access to emergency contraception and early-term abortion may be skewing my sense of things. If I were his victim, I'd be angry, and I'd want to kill the man—but I know I most likely don't really have to carry a pregnancy to term.
Contrast that to someone without access to good medical care, though: Being raped would have a small chance of being a death sentence, and a large chance of leaving them with the rapist's child. That's the default risk, and I should treat it as such..
Anyway, I said a lot of stupid stuff. Sorry.
Re: Well, I said a lot of stupid stuff today. I apologise.
The judge's decision was partly based on twisting of the situation ("she didn't say no, so she consented!") and his family and friends downplaying the issue and writing him letters which he read and took seriously. The case was skewed in his favor from the start. The overall problem here is we don't take rape seriously in a judicial sense and that needs to change.
Re: Well, I said a lot of stupid stuff today. I apologise.
I have a whole pet peeve about incarceration, and I knew nothing about this case before I basically stuck my foot in mouth and kept going in this thread.
I read more on it, and the judge's sentence and explanation of same seems incredibly messed up.
Sorry for sounding like a giant turd.
Re: Well, I said a lot of stupid stuff today. I apologise.
Definitely there are many times when the justice system overreaches. I just think this is not one of those times, but rather an underreach, so to speak, in this particular situation.