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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Sat, 20 Nov 1999 04:28:51 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
What if, in the earlier example, the rape victim fought off her attacker, and
in the process killed him?  Who, then, is guilty of what?

Short answer: I dunno. That bit requires much further thought.

Hunh?  Rape ought to be a capital crime anyway, but if a rape
victim, as in someone who is at that moment being raped, fights off
her rapist and kills him in the process, who on earth would find her
guilty of anything?

Some people want to see gray everywhere, but some things are black
and white.

I guess a few of us are having trouble weighing moral-outrage against
moral-obligation.  A prickly issue, to be sure...

Yeah, it is.

Mmmm.

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  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
(...) No, it oughtn't. That's another discussion, but it does colour my thoughts here. (...) _If_ there is any proof that there was, in fact, a rape goping on. The situation isn't what makes it gray, it's what can be made to look like the same (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Who doesn't? (...) Short answer: I dunno. That bit requires much further thought. (...) Yeah, it is. Jasper (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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