(December 28, 2016 at 12:56 am)pool the great Wrote:(December 27, 2016 at 11:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The prosecution may not be filing the charge as "rape" due to the verbiage of the law, but the act of rape is most certainly prosecuted here in Texas.
I have to assume you're being willfully obtuse. There's no way you can be so unintelligent as to not see the point made.
Again, when your only defense is semantics, you're probably fighting for an indefensible premise.
Getting convicted for rape is far more damaging that say for sexual assault. Just the allegation of a rape can ruin future career prospects, nobody wants to hire someone like that. You didn't read news about that football team that got falsely accused of rape, then had the rape claim proved false and then still had their lives ruined? Half the punishment is the label of a "rapist" itself. No idea why you're defending not naming a female rapist a rapist.
No, in Texas aggravated sexual assault is the same career-killer as rape elsewhere.
Why you think I'm defending anything is beyond me, because I'm not. I'm pointing out, as a citizen of Texas, that you're simply wrong. I'm also pointing out that your appeal to semantics is silly.
Bottom line: You're spouting off even though you don't have a clue what you're talking about, and are so wedded to your own views that you're unwilling to consider that you might be wrong.
Truly is it said, "Certainty is the surest impediment to learning."
