Redefining murder

[tamnonlinear]

You know what we need to redefine in this country? Murder.

Consider Angels of Death. These are people, often those working in the medical field, either as doctors, nurses, or other care providers, who intentionally kill their patients. They sometimes perform this when they view it as a 'mercy killing' of someone in suffering, but sometimes this

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[singingnettle]

Yes, you're right.

I say this from sad experience that I would be very happy to excise from my memory bank, thanks.

[tamnonlinear]

Yeah, this is not entirely foreign territory for me either.

[singingnettle]

It makes steam come out of my ears that so very many of us can say of rape or sexual abuse, "Been there, done that, got the t-shirt/disease/injury/pregnancy/ostracism."

We should be marching in the streets about it.

[smckeown]

That people require this very obvious statement boggles my mind. And, sadly, many most certainly do.

[tamnonlinear]

It's not like I had to look hard for examples, sadly.

[smckeown]

We also don't have to look very hard to find the clueless. Every time we suggest means to fix that, people cry "Eugenics!" and go back to overbreeding the clinically brain-dead. :(

[tamnonlinear]

Sean, I like you, but you've just made an apologize or leave comment. Eugenics is not an okay thing to joke about in my journal, assuming that you are joking. What people choose to believe as a result of their upbringing and culture does not warrant loss of control of people's sovereignty over their own bodies, no matter how distasteful.

Consider that your offhanded remark is a rather ironically unpleasant suggestion to make in a post about how cultures are so easily dismissive of women's claim to sovereignty over their own bodies, and a discussion of government abuse of power with regard to issues of human sexuality and reproduction is hardly somewhere to be advocating further abuses on that topic. Please understand that I mean this in all seriousness.

[royalgeekg]

Hear hear. Very well put.

[tamnonlinear]

Thank you.

[bailunrui]

As I was reading, I thought you had lost your mind until I got to the redefining rape part. Then the lightbulb went off. :)

[tamnonlinear]

Well I may have, but not about this.

[tamnonlinear]

Because a marriage makes two people into one legal entity and you can't rape yourself, so a husband can't be charged with raping his wife. Or he has the right to her- it's why the institution of marriage exists and she's lost the right to say no, because she has an obligation to provide him with sexual gratification. Or marriage is a protected institution and you can't have the law poking its nose into it. Or you can't take just a woman's word on it- she can only claim there was a rape if they were living separately and there was force involved.

I've read up on the topic as well. It's one of the ones I like to point out when people start talking about the sacred institution of marriage and the good old days when people respected tradition. Yeah, right.

That professor was crap.