RE: Women in the Military More Likely to Be Traumatized by Sexual Assault Than Combat
November 27, 2012 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2012 at 1:51 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 27, 2012 at 1:37 pm)CliveStaples Wrote:(November 27, 2012 at 1:31 pm)Chuck Wrote: I would venture to suggest that some degree of psychological or socialogical pathology is involved if substantial number of people do indeed regard the trauma of rape without threat to life to be worse than the trauma of facing actual death.
It is perverse to regard certain relatively superficial self-perception to be dearer than the very life that made it possible.
Hmm. I think there's a certain existential nobility to the notion--something like, "Better to die free than to live a slave". Self-preservation at any cost is not so universal a maxim that departure from such is necessarily "perverse".
There is no nobility in overtrumpeted irrationality, only childish pretenses shielding fundamental irresponsibility.
I would be very sorry to see any woman regarding herself as or more damaged by rape than by death.