Seeing as 80% of the more than 17,000 rape cases since 2014 remain unsolved... 79 only in January this year, 732 raped women and 444 raped CHILDREN last year. I'm sorry, I can't help but to think someone's doing the right thing. I really don't care who, but something had to happen.
We won’t know if they are doing the right thing will we? There were no trials for the accused. So unless someone finds iron clad proof of innocence or guilt post mortem- there’s no way to know. It’s very unlikely a post mortem investigation will get much resources since the accused is dead so proving guilt or innocence is a lower priority than active cases. If they find proof of guilt, they’ll find it in the same time they would if the person weren’t dead give or take. If they find proof of innocence... there isn’t much that can be done there. So the frustration is understandable over there and in general at the suffering. However extrajudicial murder can seldom of ever be called a good thing, and it opens a big fat door for abuses that are on par with the evils they may be intended to prevent. What is to stop people from making false accusations against those they would rather have not around? Or to stop the executioners from labeling a person as a rapist but killing them for their...
... own gains or politics? The bigger the pile of bodies are, the easier it is to hide a few- especially when there’s no oversight or accountability or questions being asked before we toss another body in. There is an obvious systemic issue- especially when the police themselves are (allegedly) motivated to need to go beyond the law to serve justice. However vigilante justice and blood retribution is not a substitute for a functioning legal system. It’s the fast and easy way, often taken by the well meaning who do not realize the fast easy way almost always causes more problems in the long term that someone else in the future must then solve ad infinitum until someone finally pays the ever increasing price to sort the mess out and do it right as it should have been to start.
Np, @xvarnah! I'm half assuming this is a troll, so I won't pour my heart and soul into it. But:
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Guest, sexual assault isn't about getting sex. It's about someone being sad and unbalanced and thinking they can fill an unmet psychological need by using someone else. This can be through flashing, emotionally bonding with someone too young, outright pedophilia, violence, stalking, etc.. Again, all these types of assaults are caused by someone not functioning correctly. Even if they have a significant other, they won't be fulfilled in their relationship until they figure out how to get their head straight. Does that make sense?
Vigilante justice is nothing to be glorified. A single person should never be allowed to pass the judgement of life and death in this way. No matter who he killed, he took it upon himself to end another person's life. This man has committed the act of murder, and that is an action we should never excuse for any reason whatsoever.
Are you.... saying..... That because we don’t have vigilantes murdering rapists in the street we don’t have a rape culture- or because they do have vigilantes murdering people in the street they don’t have a rape culture, or something else I’m Missing here? Or is this like a genuine ignorance of what those words mean and how they are applied, or just a wee bit o trolling...?
I'm not saying that just this proves that their isn't a rape culture, but the thought that rape is encouraged is absolutly absurd. if someone rapes anyone, kill em'. The thought of a rape culture in a country that punishes rape is absurd.
(also I misread the post and thought this was a guy in america, which was extrordinarrily stupid of me and i'm sorry.)
The misreading thing happens. No worries. Thenides though isn’t that rape is encouraged- as in cheered on. The idea is that not only is rape/assault often excused or trivialized, but that “traditional” cultural values and norms condone or are complict in if not tacitly encouraging behaviors which fall within the spectrum of sexual misconduct. Many core ideas even those ingrained in gender identity facilitate an idea of sexual conquest and dominance, a circumstantial or unilateral suspension of rules about personal choice and space. A legal system punishing a crime or not isn’t the issue. Many drugs including pot are or were illegal universally or locally and yet a drug culture can still exist. When and where homosexuality is criminalized a “gay” culture can exist. Even where discrimination is illegal- you can have discriminatory culture and remnants of social convention or law which are based upon prejudiced thinking or contain such elements in their being.
So long story short- the law isn’t what is at question. It is the normalization and acceptance of the removal of autonomy or choice, a sexualization or objectification of potential victims, the diminishment of said potential victims or their rights and suffering, and the normalization of aggressive and or violent sexuality against certain groups. “Rape culture” isn’t a catch all term that applies to everything every person does. It is a term that applies to instances where rape or elements of rape and the underlying behaviors are accepted by components or members of a society as “the way things are” or “how things are supposed to be.” It is also not a catch all term for anything in opposition of feminism or gender equality, it’s not a label that can be stamped on anything and everything. Just those components related to the normalization of subjugation of sexual autonomy and rights.
Sorry not sorry
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Guest, sexual assault isn't about getting sex. It's about someone being sad and unbalanced and thinking they can fill an unmet psychological need by using someone else. This can be through flashing, emotionally bonding with someone too young, outright pedophilia, violence, stalking, etc.. Again, all these types of assaults are caused by someone not functioning correctly. Even if they have a significant other, they won't be fulfilled in their relationship until they figure out how to get their head straight. Does that make sense?
(also I misread the post and thought this was a guy in america, which was extrordinarrily stupid of me and i'm sorry.)