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From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Penalties for Rape
Message-ID: <191@dcdwest.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 18:43:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 18:43:01 1985
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In the discussions that have taken place in the last few weeks, the
penalties for rape have been alluded to.  Sometimes people have
suggested the death penalty, castration or long prison terms.  I would
like to know what people think is an appropriate penalty and why.  Is
there some way in which rape can be compared with other crimes so that
comparable punishments could be exacted.

By the way, I have two teenage daughters and were they to be raped, I
would probably want to kill or maim the rapist.  That is my revenge
reaction; what society chooses to do would likely be motivated by other
than revenge.
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