RE: woman rights in Islam
November 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2009 at 3:33 pm by Violet.)
First off, i agree with the fact that nobody is EVER asking to be raped... but that was not the point (As I interpreted it anyway).
How a person dresses does not detract from their being a person, and if they have a sex: there is potential for sexual abuse. If a substance can be used, there arises the potential for abuse. Money :: Woman :: Rope :: Kangaroo :: Notebook :: Nuclear Bomb :: Road Signs :: Piano :: Rotting Fish Guts :: Knowledge --> All substances that can be used, and usually that means they can be abused.
It isn't so much 'asking to be raped'... as it is presenting oneself a likelier and easier to access target. It is the same with waving around your money... you are not asking for it to be stolen... but you are placing attention upon the money... and thus making a robbery more likely.
That is what Dotard meant by "The way of things", and that it is sadly so. You are right that it isn't my fault my money was stolen because I was waving it around in people's faces... but doing so certainly could have contributed to the occurrence having happened. It is always the rapist's/murderer's/theif's/whatever's fault that a substance was abused or infringed upon... and that is precisely why we need to be able to protect that which we possess.
Possession is the law
And you are right to state that it is absurd that a person was asking for the removal or abuse of something simply by possessing it
(Edit: changed treated poorly to infringed upon, as it is less likely to be misinterpreted imo)
How a person dresses does not detract from their being a person, and if they have a sex: there is potential for sexual abuse. If a substance can be used, there arises the potential for abuse. Money :: Woman :: Rope :: Kangaroo :: Notebook :: Nuclear Bomb :: Road Signs :: Piano :: Rotting Fish Guts :: Knowledge --> All substances that can be used, and usually that means they can be abused.
It isn't so much 'asking to be raped'... as it is presenting oneself a likelier and easier to access target. It is the same with waving around your money... you are not asking for it to be stolen... but you are placing attention upon the money... and thus making a robbery more likely.
That is what Dotard meant by "The way of things", and that it is sadly so. You are right that it isn't my fault my money was stolen because I was waving it around in people's faces... but doing so certainly could have contributed to the occurrence having happened. It is always the rapist's/murderer's/theif's/whatever's fault that a substance was abused or infringed upon... and that is precisely why we need to be able to protect that which we possess.
Possession is the law
And you are right to state that it is absurd that a person was asking for the removal or abuse of something simply by possessing it (Edit: changed treated poorly to infringed upon, as it is less likely to be misinterpreted imo
)
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
