EmptyForceofChi:
True enough we cannot expect every single animal to abide by the laws, but what of the conditions that facilitate disobedience?
For instance, I still, sixteen years later, cannot fathom the impact of the "sexually proper" society on rape survivors. It isn't that the loved ones don't care, but in their care they often only complicate the situation. Consider the young lover, at one of the greatest moments of her life so far, weeping on her boyfriend's shoulder because she wasn't a virgin when they were first together. Right there are two mucked-up issues of the proper: what is the American obsession with virginity? I endured it, but understand very little of it. And then there's the fact that the survivor is not in the least oblivious to the fact that everyone around is walking on eggshells. Both of these effects are hugely damaging, but I can't get a sounding on this abyss.
So I would ask you to think about it this way: The vast majority of rapes in the United States are committed by offenders known to their victims. Self-reporting surveys on college campuses suggest a minimum of seventy-thousand sex acts that can be defined as rape each year. We are familiar with affirmation rituals. "Yes you may," instead of "No, I don't mind." What is the flip-side of this?
When adults lament the state of sexuality promoted to children through the marketplace, the discussion typically forgets that it is the adult sexuality being addressed in such media. The lament, then, is about the manifestations of the sexuality of the offended generation.
This is important, because while the discussion is often misogynistic in its focus on female sexuality, what the hell is charging hormones to a minimum of seventy-thousand rapes a year among people old enough to be entrusted with military service or the vote? What ideas justify such conduct? What conflicts motivate such decisions?
Nature is enough of a challenge. In light of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, locust swarms, HIV, and the up-and-coming Global Warming Extravaganza (how hot will it get?), warfare seems rather quite silly. Likewise, even if we got our ethics and morals straightened out to the point that they are logical and useful, nature would still provide us with a certain number of socio- and psychopaths who would commit murder and rape and other sorts of mayhem. These ought to be enough, don't you think?
In the meantime, our "attitudes to rape" are intrinsically woven with our attitudes toward sexuality. As long as our sexual attitudes are warped, we can expect that the greater proportion of human animals who violate the law will do so for seemingly arbitrary and nonsensical reasons. This is, perhaps, the great tragedy. The psychopaths can't necessarily help it. The rest of us can.
The number of deviant human animals who fail to abide by the laws of the majority, at least in terms of sexual violence, will come down as we make progress in the excruciating task of excising from our civic conscience its bullshit.
yeah i see what your saying, but our attitudes towards sex are warped if we actualy believe ourselves not to be animals. we should look into the animal kingdom to see how they act about sex, you can see the comparison ofcourse with human males and other animal males.
men rape more than women that is a fact, and you only have to look to nature to see the answer as to why they do, its obviously natural for a man to wanr sex and to try and get it,
some use mating rituals like looking good, showing off strength, trying to impress the opposite sex in any fashion possible. and some simple aquire sex by force, all of those things in the animal kingdom are natural.
but we as ethical thinking humans are un-comfortable with this fact, we dont like to view ourselves as the beast, the killer, the rapist, the fighter, the aggressor, but thats what we can be its not nice but its true,
all you have to do is watch wildlife shows on national geographic channel, or own dogs and cats as pets, then it is plain to see why male animals act like that when seeking sex.
also not everyone cares about other peoples feelings, that is plain to see in nearly every aspect of human society, we are not considerate of how we effect other people in negative ways, if we all had sympathy for how we effect everyone maybe we wouldent act this way, but our desires usualy come before our humanity, we are selfish creatures by nature to deny this is turning a blind eye.
just look around everywhere, you will see people acting selfish and self centered, so if we care about our own pleasure more than how we effect other people, combined with natural desire for males to mate, you get rape. maybe a man wants sex with a particular woman even though he already has a wife, because he might care more about his own personal desire than hurting others, he will feel no way about rape,
i think there would be alot more rape if we didnt send rapists to jail, the law is stopping the amount of rape that would happen, people usualy dont care much about other peoples troubles, alot of men dont commit rape because they will be punished not because they care about others, alot of people do xare about others, but the majority do not and that is clear from how society conducts itself,
peace.