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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian
- Subject: Re: Feminism and Libertarians
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:12:31 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec19.204243.2299@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec20.001534.27631@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec20.055848.410@genie.slhs.udel.edu> <1992Dec20.140943.24362@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.140943.24362@samba.oit.unc.edu>, bolden@beta.math.unc.edu (Jeffrey Bolden) writes:
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- > >}Rape is very different from most types of assault. Assult is generally
- > >}directed against an individual, while rape is a crime directed against a
- > >}group. Its the difference between murder and genocide.
- > >
- > >I'm not persuaded of this. Individuals are always the victims. In some
- > >cases, the motive may be hatred of all women, but in others it may be
- > >hatred of the particular victim.
- >
- > Well the group of individuals that this tends to happen to see it as a
- > crime against their group rather than against themselves as individuals.
- > Most crimologists agree. Commonly rape is directed at strangers.
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- So is mugging, or burglary. So what? That doesn't make them "group
- crimes."
-
- Is "spouse abuse" a "group crime?"
-
- Feminists are fond of saying, "Rape is not a crime of sex, but of violence."
- This means that rape (like torture) should be considered a subset of battery
- crimes.
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