Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 23:32:04 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233204.27599@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1k250hINNiu5@pith.uoregon.edu>, toman@bovine.uoregon.edu (Jay toman) writes:
|> > ^^^^^
|> >
|> >I believe that Bernard Goetz(sp?) proved otherwise. He actually killed
|> >someone because he felt threatened.
|>
|> He didn't just feel threatened, he WAS threatened, with a weapon !
|> Sure, it's a very gray area, what's a real threat and what isn't,
|> my point was that from my armchair-quarterback-hearing-it-second-hand
|> position, the woman in the story freaked out and blew it big time .
|>
|> >
|>
|> J. Toman
I hope not to start a flame war but if I do, so be it.
The main problem if passing judgement on stories that we read or hear about is the main fact that we were NOT THERE!!! We don't know all of the story. Her intuition told her that the only way to get out of her situation was to fight. I say, good for her.
After five years of assisting and later teaching Rape and Assualt prevention to women and men, and hearing the stories of people who have been assaulted and survived to tell about it, there was a time that the survivor "felt something was wrong" before it happened. Most of the time there was nothing "wrong" on the surface, but out of the blue things happened.
Ted Bundy used a fake cast while caring a lot of books to get women to beleive that he was in pain and needed help. Point being, I share with my students "I think it's better to be in court explaining why this other person was hurt, than the other person being in court explaining why he raped/beat-up/killed you."
Seib
Live long, and perspire.
Seib Seibl Computer Science Corp. NASA/Ames Research Center
