Re: In Memory of Shalhevet Pas [was: The lovely folks of Hebron]

James Kahn wrote:

In <dnv3qo$bo5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Joel Shurkin <shurkin@xxxxxxx> writes:


Lest we get accustomed to the notion that two wrongs make a right... We
all lament for the child. We, or at some most of us, wonder what the
hell she was doing there.


Joel, is that your response when a woman is raped while out alone at night in a bad neighborhood? Or if a black person was attacked in
an all-white neighborhood known to be hostile to blacks? This child's
family may or may not have been reckless, but it seems that we don't usually put so much emphasis on that unless it's a Jew choosing to
live in a hostile neighborhood. Then it seems like anything goes.



When a women is out alone in a bad neighborhood, she should not be. The man who rapes her is still a rapist but only a foolish woman would be out alone in a bad neighborhood at night. Every woman I know knows that and wouldn't do it. If a black person moves into a neighborhood of hostile whites he goes knowing he may be attacked and either he decides it is worth the risk or it is not. In neither case were children involved.

If an adult wants to put him or herself in harm's way, they have the right and presumably the mental capacity to make that decision. Putting a child in harm's way is unconscionable. I felt the same way about the people who moved with the families to Gaza. When the mother and shock and my second response was fury at the mother for risking her children's lives. No responsible parent would do that, for politics or religion. It does not in any way exonerate the evil doers, but you can't really be surprised when evil is done nor can you escape responsibility yourself for letting it happen.



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