This is the mindset that I find most frustrating. People who have done bad things get compartmentalized into this other box and then it doesn't matter what they do. They've been differentiated.
Particularly with rape and other sexual crime- and, lately, terrorism. And I think it's really a way that society tries to absolve itself- these people are unusual/throwbacks/genetically meant to be rapists/terrorists, we have done nothing to cause it. Which while it handily exonerates the victim- which is what we're talking about with rape here- I agree that it's totally insufficient as it relates to the offender.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:11 am (UTC)Particularly with rape and other sexual crime- and, lately, terrorism. And I think it's really a way that society tries to absolve itself- these people are unusual/throwbacks/genetically meant to be rapists/terrorists, we have done nothing to cause it. Which while it handily exonerates the victim- which is what we're talking about with rape here- I agree that it's totally insufficient as it relates to the offender.
I'm not saying that decado is mean or anything.
I would. ;)
Kidding.