• ‘20 minutes of action’: father defends Stanford student son convicted of sexual assault
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[QUOTE=Megadave;50482655]I'm not so sure on the rehabilitation part. Unless you do Clockwork Orange type rehabilitation I don't really see how it would do good. Even then they'd just revert back to their old self. Point being, the dude deserves at least 3-5 years of prison along with rehabilitation. and if he does it again make it a life sentence. I don't give a shit if his precious little life is ruined, he ruined someone elses life so he deserves the same. You can call it a revenge fantasy all you want, but if he isn't given the maximum amount it just sets a bad example to all the other rapist. Rape is about second to worst thing you can do to a person, I'd almost say worse than murder.[/QUOTE] "almost worse than murder" just no also, what do you think the purpose of prison is? It's supposed to rehabilitate.
i still prefer treating them with rehabilitation. there are rapists out there, i'm not saying it's all of them, but there are some who actually have a very childish mentality concerning rape. there are men (and women) who act out of some crazy power fantasy or just don't give a shit, and there are men who have been told to all their life that sex is a taboo, basically a manchild who has been sheltered all their life and never has been taught the actual ins and outs of sex. so they have this idea rooted in their head that sex is wrong and you should never do it and if you do it you're going to hell. but that's only if you get caught. so what do you do? you try to do it sneaky, so you can still experience what it's like to have sex, except nobody knows so you don't go to hell. more often than not are mental handicaps involved in cases like these. i agree that rape is objectively wrong but i still think we have to look at the mentality of the person who did it. if it's a literal manchild who hasn't actually grown up and doesn't fit in this society and has never been given the help he needs, then i'd say putting them in prison isn't going to work, because the person ends up not understanding why he was put in prison, and that's only going to make matters worse. those people need rehabilitation. people who do it purely for that power fantasy, now those people need to be slammed, because if these people do it with full conscience but they simply don't give a fuck, give 'em 15 years and rehab as well. [editline]9th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Radical_ed;50482674]also, what do you think the purpose of prison is? It's supposed to rehabilitate.[/QUOTE] not all prisons seem to be keen of the whole rehabilitation process though. some prisons are just a holding pen and no process is made to 'repair' the individuals.
I honestly think that "20 minutes of action" was just a [I]really[/I] poor choice of words on the father's part.
[QUOTE=IKTM;50484459]I honestly think that "20 minutes of action" was just a [I]really[/I] poor choice of words on the father's part.[/QUOTE] I'm tempted to assume the worst and think that he just doesn't understand the idea of rape, which would be appalling, but I'm also trying very hard to consider the possibility that this is the only vocabulary he has access to that can halfway describe what he means. In any case it doesn't matter much. Getting pissed over one specific remark from one specific case doesn't really help the larger issue. I'd like to see more and better sex education, parents that stress empathy and boundaries, and less victim blaming. And I say this without at all trying to absolve the rapist of his crime. After all, plenty of others find themselves in similar circumstances and don't rape. He made the choice to commit rape.
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