- #106
Leah
It's not fair what happened to you. My mom always told me that 'life is not fair'. Not only can you be raped in prison, but you can be raped in the outside world too. I have, several times. You just have to deal with it!
hypatia said:Being the mother of a child murdered by a 4 time DUI driver...I wonder just how many chances you want to give these "poor people with a problem" to kill?
hypatia said:As a 4 time offender in MI, he had already gone into the mandatory treatment programs, had already been fined thousands of dollars, had already had his driveing license removed {driveing without one}. Every state has programs set aside, with special funding, and special staff.
Those programs only work for people who want to change. Many choose not to change.
They are still murders, and in my eyes are no better then someone on crack with a gun shooting kids. They need to be in prison, they need to understand they are as "bad" as the people they are with. If they have totally blown off the chances they were given, then the choice to be in prison, was also there own.
The guy in the OP, I don't feel sorry for him, not one bit.
Lume said:I think what we should be asking is whether a society that allows rape should be considered a society in the first place.
Lume said:Defending the violence of the status quo is both lazy and easy. It takes very little brainpower, empathy, or anything else. All you have to do is keep harping that, "this is the way things are!"
It's the position that would've justified killing rape victims in the old days because they were "unclean"; keeping slaves because it was profitable for the slaveholders; torturing witches because it was an effective way of determining whether they were innocent or not.
I think what we should be asking is whether a society that allows rape should be considered a society in the first place.
denverdoc said:We don't know that the guy is an idiot, only one who has a problem and exercises very bad judgement under the influence, where he seems to spend a good deal of his time.
cyrusabdollahi said:We don't allow rape, so this is a meaningless statement. Just because it happens does not mean its allowed.
scorpa said:What are all of you who feel so strongly about this doing to change it? I'm not trying to seem like a jerk about this, but there seem to be a lot of people on here talking about the other side with their "redneck backcountry hick uneducated lazy and easy way out views" but I don't see anyone saying what they are doing about it.
I would say that he is a drug addict, which we all have the potential to be. I realize that’s not as easy as simply dismissing him as an idiot, but I think it’s a little closer to the truth.scorpa said:The guy that was a 3rd or 4th time DUI is an absolute idiot, and deserves incarceration.
Just because it happens and no one does anything about it doesn't mean it's allowed? Really?? I think we are operating with two different definitions of the word "allowed."
cyrusabdollahi said:Murder is not allowed, but it happens all the time. I have no clue what your talking about though...
devil-fire said:i think he might have been referring to "I explained to the hearing officer what the issue was. He told me that off the record, He suggests I find a man I would/could willingly have sex with to prevent these things from happening. I've requested protective custody only to be denied.".
the authorities knew this guy was being abused, he could have proven it with a doctor's assesment of his injurys being of a sexual nature, but the person in the position of authority didnt think it was his responsability to take proective action.
so its like "i know what's going on and that's not allowed but I am not going to do anything about it"