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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: prisons
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 18:43:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 22 18:43:18 1984
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	From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
	Message-ID: <173@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
	Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 21:06:00 CST
	
	I challenge *ANY* male who reads net.women to read that and
	respond that if this horror had occurred to his mother,
	girlfriend, sister, lover, wife, daughter, or friend, to say
	that he would try to help her forgive.  It goes beyond
	imagination that any thinking person would say, "Oh my mom?
	Yes, she was raped a few years back, but she was asking for
	it."

Since when is a belief that she was asking for it a prequisite for
forgiveness?  I would try to help her free herself from her guilt
and pain:  forgiveness may be hard and long to come by, but it is
superior to vengeance.

Which is not to say the rapist should have gotten off, or was not
responsible, or any crap like that.  Something should be done to
prevent the rapist from doing it again;  what is a different question.
But hate is not the answer.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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