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DetlefK

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2. Because small communities cannot afford a rapist.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 03:32 AM
Mar 2015

He causes violence, he causes emotional distress, he causes loss of productivity, he causes loss of social bonding, he causes the birth of an unwanted child... In small societies, from a strictly rational, amoral and social point-of-view, the only sensible treatment for rapists is banishment or execution.

In big societies, the negative consequences the rape has on the community get more and more diminished: The level of violence, distress, and social problems becomes acceptable to the community, a background-noise.
And after a while, "background-noise" rape is the new normal.

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