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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: (Contains some explicit text *NOT* for weak-stomached readers)
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 12:02:49 EDT
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> >I very strongly oppose capital punishment for rape cases.
> >I can just about (big waffle here) accept it for first-degree murder.
> >
> >I cannot equate rape with murder.  It is very bad, but murder is worse
> >(it is hard to recover from being murdered). [...]
> >
> >	geoff sherwood
> 
> Geoff, have you ever actually discussed rape with a woman who has been
> raped?  I know a woman who was raped when she was 12 years old.  She's
> 26 now, is in and out of mental institutions, and not a day has gone by
> that she hasn't thought about the rape and considered suicide.

> (beth christy)

I assume from your long reply detailing the horrors of rape that you disagree
with geoff's assertion that murder is worse than rape.

I have a simple question, the answer to which may spread a little understanding
(then again, it may not).

Would you really just as soon be killed as raped? I would appreciate a
thoughtful and serious answer.


As you point out, being a man, I deal with the subject in the abstract. But
sometimes distance gives you better perspective. And then again, sometimes
not.

					Jeff Winslow