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I think rape is seen worse because of the meaninglessness of it.
There might be a reason to kill someone. Rape is just giving into your inner demons.
Ah but doesn't that line of hypothetical thinking require the very very specific premise of the killer having a good reason and the rapist having a bad reason?
Now if those are the conditions, my brain goes ok!
Hypothetical accepted. Scenario: a child rapist is punished for raping children by a fellow prisoner who is feeling self righteous. The form of punishment he inflicts? Rape.
Is Rape worse than killing now? Also, I heard long ago that rape is more about power dynamics than sexual gratification. I don't know if that changes anything.
Whatcha think?
That's just rape culture.
So if something is part of a culture it becomes valid automatically? What if there's a tribe in some village somewhere in the world that enforces arranged marriage between the oldest man in the village and the youngest girl in the village every time there is a blue moon. Or some other such example.
Does that change anything? When does culture become insufficient? Or culture is definitely the rule?
Not really. We're just in a cultural turning point where we realize how bad rape is alongside with our definition of rape moving away from "horny pervert in ski mask found in easy to avoid dark alleys", and even "drunken sex" is being shunned; but not everyone have moved on from it, especially in cases like this (at least prison rape of pedophiles are getting surpassed by shivs).
I gotcha, so your main goal here is just pointing out that cultures shift over time and we are in such a cultural shift at present and people should be cognizant of that fact. I definitely agree with that.
Not sure why I get down voted for trying to ask enough questions to understand something, but such is my autism. Used to it by now. Thanks for the chat, sorry it took that long. Social paradigms are very complicated to me.