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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: Re: Rape as a perspective
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.235608.17514@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 23:56:08 GMT
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- In article <AFHWB0QN@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
- >There was a novel leagal suggestion being presented in a paper I read
- >recently which argued why this sort of things and many others should
- >still be considered rape. It has to do with the principle which I
- >believe wasa termed "heightened care" or something like that, what the
- >principle referred to was that concept in common law that someone you
- >know has a heightened duty to care about your person.
- >
- Proof that all lawyers should be shot? From an point of view other than
- that of a civil lawsuit, this concept of "heightened care" is utter
- nonsense. It would allow anyone to sue anyone for almost anything. If I eat
- the last jelly roll my co-workers could sue me because I should have known
- that they might have wanted it. Maybe they _really_ wanted it.
-
- Under this idea, could the boyfriend have sued the girl for _not_ having
- sex with him? I mean, she was intentionally depriving him of something he
- very much wanted.
-
- DanZ
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