RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
January 4, 2015 at 5:22 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 5:26 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 4, 2015 at 12:15 am)bennyboy Wrote: Show me any culture in which women are not raped.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...s=341x5029
The Ashanti as well seem to be remarkably free of the scourge of rape.
What's interesting about both those examples is that women are given at least equal status in society, and in the first, they were the avenues of inheritance.
(January 4, 2015 at 12:15 am)bennyboy Wrote: If no men in a culture had the predisposed inclination toward rape, then there would not have been any mechanism by which rape could become part of any culture.
You're begging the question here. I can think of several other means by which rape becomes a cultural artifact. One is war; rape is used as a weapon to defeat the home front of a conquered enemy, and then those soldiers return home. Another is simple gender politics: because men literally have muscle, they could sometimes physically assume power in a society, and force unwilling women to have sex in order to secure resources or shelter.
I could go on, but you get my point: you're assuming what you want to demonstrate.
(January 4, 2015 at 12:15 am)bennyboy Wrote: Therefore, "at least some men are genetically inclined to commit rape," and rape cannot be an exclusively cultural artifact.
The fallacy pointed out above renders this conclusion unsupported. You need to demonstrate a positive link between genetics and rape behavior in order to support your claim.
You've yet to do so.
The reason why I am arguing this point is because assigning a genetic component to rape would seem to me to at least partially absolve (some) rapists of the responsibility for their crime(s).
