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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Defence of lawyer on 60 minutes
Message-ID: <158@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 23:44:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 23:44:12 1984
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    Maybe it is a little too late for this, but late is better than never.
 Several people expressed their anger and frustration with what the lawyer
 on 60 minutes said about "mild rape". I didn't find what the lawyer said
 very disgusting or outrageous for the following reasons:
    There is no doubt that rape is very tragic and painful. No doubt that
 what the rapist did was definitely wrong and he/she should be punished
 for it but there must be a difference in the punishments of two rapists
 one of whom cuts the victim "into pieces" and the other who does not
 inflict any "physical damage" on the victim. One person on the same show
 said, "This is not a black & white world but a world of several shades of
 grey". Good people make mistakes too, in this case a horrible mistake.
 They should pay for it but they should not become the targets of somebody's
 anger. In my opinion, a raped person should not substitude pain with anger
 and hatred. Those are the same qualities that drive the rapist to commit
 that act. If you hate him/her, you will become like what you hate. Doesn't
 sound easy. It is not, but with prolonged anger there is no healing, only
 more hurting, of one's self and possibly others.