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In reply to the discussion: Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,847 posts)Is that it makes any and all programs aimed at prevention impossible by definition.
Stating that only "deviants" rape means that unless we identify the "deviants" before they rape, we can only punish them afterwards, but not prevent them from doing their deviance on someone else.
Of course, if they haven't yet worked their deviant ways, we can't punish them or even make examples of them, unless we make it a crime to be deviant without doing anything.
And how would you identify deviants before they act? Where is the test that determines "This person WILL commit a deviant act and therefore must be incarcerated to prevent this happening." Where is the test that tells the future? When did our justice system begin to convict and incarcerate people pre-emptively?
I'm not trying to change arely staircase's thinking, because I don't think that's possible. He/she/it has come to this conclusion without providing very much evidence other than an aristotelian "A is A" rather like Ayn Rand and is being very stubborn about it. I can't help that. But I can continue to put my version out there for the benefit of others.