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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
If rape laws were ineffective against rape, if the real key was to convince some culture of rape to transform themselves into a culture where rape was unforgivably taboo, if solid evidence backed up the 'superior' alternative of providing rapists with 'options'...
Rape laws would still be absolutely necessary. Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not when the country was 'ready'. Today.
The argument sucks.
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Look at the middle east... what if they changed the law tomorrow, in Saudi Arabia. Instead of the current situation, a man will be punished for committing a rape, instead of punishing the female victim. Its ingrained in their culture and belief system that rape is a womans fault, for inciting a mans "passions" (by showing a little too much skin or by being too provocative). Switching the laws around tomorrow to a western style rape laws would go over like a ton of bricks..
If a society has agreed upon a certain set of morals, it doesnt matter if the law says the opposite.. they wont work. At least not in a country like the US, where we have due process, and a notion that punishments must fit the crimes etc. In a totalitarian regime, where public, on the spot executions are possible, laws that go against the culture can be a little more effective
