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Originally Posted by sprocket
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..
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I don't really mind the unpopularity and resistance that would result from strongarming a culture into not punishing rape victims. My conscience is more bothered by a peaceful inaction/slowaction. My foremost concern would be finding effective methods in meeting that ton of bricks and overcoming it.
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If a society has agreed upon a certain set of morals, it doesnt matter if the law says the opposite.. they wont work.
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That's an awfully huge thing to say. They won't work? Ever? Change by force isn't possible? Obviously, people can be sheep. Naively or not, I'm a little more optimistic about the chances of switching out the pro-rape shepherd for the anti-rape shepherd.
Or the pro-choice shepherd for the anti-choice shepherd. Of course it won't eradicate abortion, but rape isn't exactly nonexistent here either.