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right. but you were saying that if people were saying HE deserved to be raped, then it was like saying the victim deserved to be raped. And yes, we're all human, and no one deserves to be raped.But dragging the victim into the analogy is poor form. IMO, it would be better to say "Being a humanist I understand that Jared is a deviant rapist criminal, but saying that he deserves to be raped would be lowering myself to the same base criminal mentality."
That being said, as a humanist I instantly forgive and understand anyone who wishes
any kind of harm to come to him, especially myself.
Child rapist=DP
I am not sure why you are belaboring this, nor do I understand why you feel the need to tell me how I could have worded my post better. I stand by what I said and I think I worded it just fine. I will parse it for you one last time, then I am finished with this discussion.
I was saying, if one says Fogle deserves to be raped in prison (as several posters seemed to be saying) the underlying stipulation is that some rape victims deserve it.
Once there's agreement that some rape victims deserve it, that sends us as a society down a slippery slope of deciding which victims deserved it, as in "well she deserved it because she was dressed that way" or "because she went to his hotel room with him" or "because she shouldn't have been out drinking at that time of the night," ad infinitum.
I prefer to put Fogle, the provocatively dressed woman, (and, by the way, the innocent child and child rapist/torturer/murderer that you brought up) under one big umbrella that says:
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE RAPED NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.