RE: How the fuck is there a statute of limitations for rape in New York?
October 17, 2016 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2016 at 1:41 pm by Tiberius.)
(October 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm)Shell B Wrote: It's not even a colloquial term, Tibs. Rape is rape is rape.
I know, but I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding definitions and his argument. If you aren't found guilty of committing a crime, or for some reason cannot be convicted for a crime, was it still a crime?
One definition of "murder" is "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another". So if the killing wasn't unlawful (because there was some statue of limitations preventing a conviction), is it still murder, or is it just a "killing".
The argument is an interesting one, though it's entirely based in semantics.
My argument is that "rape" has (at least) two meanings, one that relates to the legal situation, and one that is colloquial. If you have non-consensual sex with someone, you have raped them in a sense that most people understand (colloquially), even if you aren't viewed as having raped the person under the law because the rape wasn't reported in time (legally).
