Moral Dilemma

[Violet]

I've often heard it argued that rape is worse than murder. As a physical act, it clearly is not. Physically, rape involves a temporary loss of liberty, a risk of pregnancy or disease, and possibly some vaginal tearing or other physical injury, likely minor.

Value is subjective.

I've received MUCH worse injuries, physically speaking, including having the shit beat out of me by skinheads. We're talking massive concussion, cracked rib, and permanent (minor luckily) eye damage. Many would agree that rape is worse than that. But why?

Depends on the psychological torments employed.

I'm not currently in the market of blanketing all rapes as 'the worst'.

It is because the VALUES we are raised with result in our world view, and in our sex-obsessed, Victorian-residual culture, create a dangerous world view. Young children, especially girls, are taught that sexual purity is an all-or-nothing state: either you've remained pure, or you are permanently-damaged goods. A bad sexual encounter is seen as a kind of strike against the soul, an attack at the center of one's humanity. But it doesn't really have to be that way-- a changed world view can allow someone to say, "Yeah, someone stuck his dick in me 10 years ago, and fuck him for doing it-- but that's in the past, and right now I'm sitting here enjoying a beautiful sunset with my kids." People can CHOOSE not to be victimized by past events. They can't choose not to be dead.

People can choose to not be victimized by past events? This is news to me. Please explain this magical process to me.

Some people suffered little, and time dulled their pain. Some relive the events of rape for the rest of their lives (PTSD, and such).

It's probably not an easy thing to forget (rape worth noting). As with violence and other general traumas.

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I'm fairly certain that combat veterans could really use your magic wand of nonsuffering

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