Guys: Would you ever rape and murder a girl?

[Aractus]

Go fuck yourself.

It's a valid question no matter how distasteful you might feel it is. And especially so when you actually look at how common domestic violence is.

My answer is that I doubt I would ever rape or murder anyone.

But I'll also point out that religions like Christianity, and Judaism generally viewed domestic violence as an issue that shouldn't be talked about or addressed legalistically (even up until the early 20th century). Islam still views it that way, and still for example practises "honour killings" which most of us would define as outright murder (as would our courts). And Islam also teaches that women are expected to perform sexually for their husbands whether they want to or not.

Here is one such quote by Sir Matthew Hale in 1673 as Chief Justice:

“The husband cannot be guilty of a rape
committed by himself upon his lawful wife,
for by their mutual consent and contract
the wife hath given up herself in this kind
unto her husband, which she cannot retract.”

(Quote from Freedman, 2013, p.21).

Please note that Sir Matthew Hale was a devout Christian, he had studied to be a priest, and spent almost all of his spare time studying things related to his faith, and was said not to have missed a single Sunday church service in 36 straight years. So he didn't recognise marital-rape, and by extension domestic violence in general as a legal issue.

If you had asked this exact same question "would you ever rape/murder a woman" 200 years ago - as we understand "rape" and "murder" to mean today, your answers would be much less definitive than they are now. And I really doubt that atheists and Christians had significantly differing views at that time either; although do feel free to post any evidence to the contrary if you have it.