Is Rape Natural? Part 2, 2014 Edition

[Jenny A]

You're spending way too much time in Alice's fantasy Wonderland where everything is foggy and distorted. In the real world there's no gray area as you suppose. There's a clear distintion between black and white and good and evil. Rapists are evil people who have abandoned self control over their urges to commit sexual violence on hapless and unsuspecting victims. This is more of the same idiotic bullshit where there's empathy for the rapist and the victims are ignored.

I agree with you that rape is always evil. But people who are not wholly evil do evil things sometimes, not often. I'm not excusing the evil deed. I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be punished. Accountability is a good thing. But people often do both good and evil and both ought to be recognized.

I've never told my kids they are bad. I do tell them they've done bad things and there are consequences some dished out by parents and teachers and some just by the nature of the world.. I don't think that's an equation that should change as they grow up.