(October 25, 2014 at 7:49 pm)Chuck Wrote: Tone down the histrionics. No, I am not saying Iran's system is fair. I am saying there isn't enough to go on in this case to say it is more unfair than usual. You can argue against Iran not letting woman testify. You have no basis to say they hanged a rape victim any more than you have to say every Iranian man stabbed to death by s woman must have been a would be rapist.
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If you agree the system is not fair then there is no fucking point arguing the merits of this case in the first place.
Again, if the slave owner is accused of stabbing his master, do the details of that make slavery right because of the accusation? She was executed not for murder or even "attempted murder", the law language was about rape and not about her raping someone else, but the assault on her own body.
The system has to be fair BEFORE the system can be trusted, it cannot be valued when it is not fair.
You are empowering their justifications even if you think you are not by making the issue about the details of one case when the bigger picture is the issue.
