If God sent your child to Hell.

[Esquilax]

Obliviousness? I know of that being the Law and it was better than the alternative. That's not saying much with our current societal viewpoint, but it was the best for that era.

Yes: you are oblivious, because I can think of a simple alternative that's miles better than either of the options you're thinking of: have the rapist fund his victim without forcing him to marry her and be in contact with her again. The fact that such an easy solution apparently never occurred to you either means that you're working toward the presupposed conclusion that the bible's solution was the only viable one, or you are oblivious.

It actually wasn't too long ago that a similar viewpoint was common in America...if you knocked up a woman, it was automatically assumed you would marry her regardless of your actual feelings towards her.

And as usual for christians, I have to remind you that two wrongs do not make a right.