Pro abortion or not

[Esquilax]

If you got raped, you should've been more careful. (Not justifying it by any means.)

I'll hold back the torrent of white hot rage this sentence evokes in me to ask you a simple question that might clear this up: can you produce a single other crime for which you would consider the above an adequate response to someone seeking help with the consequences of that crime?

If the answer is no, then why are you making a special exemption for rape, where that's suddenly the victim's fault? Other than that it suits your ill conceived, emotionally-based argument, that is?

No doubt you'll make some comment about how women should take proper precautions to avoid it: my response to this is two fold. One, you made a blanket statement about all rape, so you're speaking without actually knowing what precautions were taken in a given situation; you literally don't know how "careful" any given rape victim has been, and yet you've somehow decided they weren't careful enough. Two, given that statistically, rape is more likely to happen with someone the victim knows and trusts, that child rape and date rape are things, and that it's impossible to accurately predict when a crime will be committed against your person, how exactly would you suggest someone be "careful" to a standard you'd accept?

Now, I'm aware you haven't thought this through enough that you actually have cogent answers on hand for any of this, but I look forward to how you'll retrofit them in. You might notice that I'm being rather standoffish here. There's a reason for that; I've seen too many dear friends and loved ones getting hurt by rape to give any quarter to flippant, victim blaming bullshit.

Especially when their next paragraph contains the phrase:

Luckily, I have empathy

Don't make me fucking laugh.

Because I 1. Have empathy. 2. Am not a bloodthirsty killer.

And this here is a perfect example of how atheism does not equal rationality: do you really think fiat appeals to emotion like this are going to have any sway among thinking beings who are actually willing to consider the facts?