Not for an individual no... but for an entire community? Rape really doesn't effect more than a few individuals... it is horrible, but it is horrible on the micro scale. Book burnings effect entire communities (Sometimes even civilizations), especially when important books (i.e. history and science texts) are destroyed in a deliberate attempt to control a populace.
The Holocaust is an example of macro crime, Shilang-Ti's (SP?) burning of books in China was a macro crime, the Rwandan Genocide was a macro crime. I don't think you can argue that one person being raped is as bad as those were?
Of course, when present on a macro scale, rape remains the worst. I don't know of any historical mass rapings though, so perhaps it has been done on a mass scale (Apart from Holocaust and the Genocide and similar things i mean)
The Holocaust is an example of macro crime, Shilang-Ti's (SP?) burning of books in China was a macro crime, the Rwandan Genocide was a macro crime. I don't think you can argue that one person being raped is as bad as those were?
Of course, when present on a macro scale, rape remains the worst. I don't know of any historical mass rapings though, so perhaps it has been done on a mass scale (Apart from Holocaust and the Genocide and similar things i mean)
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
