Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mokhtar 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 Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.158 Posted: Mon Jan 30 23:44:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:23:01 EST Organization: UBC Vision, Vancouver, BC., Canada Lines: 20 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.