Re: Punishment for Rapists

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:07:16 +0100, Daran <daranSPAMg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Lionheart <lionhearted1206@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

>> So you don't care if someone who has been violent is punished through
>> violence. By the same logic, you deserve violence if you enable it against
>> convicts with your tax dollars.
>
>As you appear to be aware, Ann lives in the UK. We don't use dollars here.
>
>It's not 'logic' at all to leap from a statement about one person not
>*caring* about another, to one about that person thinking the other
>*deserves* to suffer. The two concepts are logically orthogonal.
>
>Ann does not care about those who hurt others. I do, but I don't judge Ann
>for not doing. I make judgements about actions, not feelings.

I don't *exactly* care about those who hurt others. They really don't
mean anything to me. I don't even really care about those they hurt.
(I'm talking in general here.)

That I consider it a Bad Thing to rape anyone, including rapists, has
nothing to do with whether I care about rapists. It has only to do
with the actions of someone who would choose to rape.

Laurie
.

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