(January 29, 2015 at 8:52 am)Tonus Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 10:03 pm)Roxy904 Wrote: This is just so wrong. A woman gets raped, and then, not only is her rapist not punished, she is forced to live with him. That's not making the best of a bad situation; it's just cruelty, plain and simple. It doesn't fix the situation, or even put a band-aid or it; it wides the problem even further. And, seriously, there was no other solution whatsoever?The OT treats women as property. Note that the sentence for rape is death if the woman is betrothed; in other words, if she is another man's property, the rapist is put to death for defiling her. He is primarily committing a crime against her owner, not her. On the other hand, if she does not belong to another man, then the sentence is basically a form of "you broke it, you bought it." She probably loses value in the eyes of other men, and therefore the guy who 'damaged the goods' must pay for the loss (note that the price is paid to the woman's father).
"But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her."
Clearly the crime is committed against the woman, your entire idea that the punishment is for taking another mans property is so weak you havn't even tried to substantiate it.
