RE: So did Atheism + bite the dust?
February 11, 2015 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2015 at 11:25 am by Dystopia.)
(February 11, 2015 at 11:20 am)robvalue Wrote: Dyst: Sure. I know what you're saying. It may be that your control over whether you get raped or not is negligible. I have no idea really. But to me, it's not just teaching people not to get raped, but to avoid dangerous situations in general. Everyone should. For example, walking around in the dark alone is a bad idea.- Yes but - Most rapes are not like that and don't happen when you walk alone at night AND... Most women are already afraid to walk alone at night and avoid doing so, women are already taught to not accept drinks from strangers, to always catch a cab instead of coming alone at night, to not dress too short to avoid attracting attention. Sometimes this doesn't work. Walking alone is a bad idea but if I got robbed by someone I wouldn't like people to blame it on me, sometimes the only choice is to walk alone
As for the body language and such, yeah I really don't know how much difference this makes. Probably not as much as he is making out. I think he's trying to acknowledge that there are sickos out there and that you don't want to give them any more opportunity or encouragement than necessary. But maybe he was overplaying the important of some things.
Yeah there's some psychopathic rapists out there but they are a minority and work in a different way. Most rapists are not accused and may in the future be married and have kids. Psychopathic rapists are the lesser concern because they're far from being the rule.
To be fair, everyone can take self-defence classes and it's fine, the problem is when society is caring too much about teaching women defence instead of educating people to not rape others, which is attacking symptoms, not the cause. If you look at the west you see an example of how education and secularism makes rape decrease. It's all about education.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you