I think part of the reason many people dislike rapists more than murderers 1) people are more likely to encounter a rapist than a murderer in their daily lives, 2) it's harder to secure a conviction for rape cases than it is for either manslaugher or murder (to be fair, an increasing number of murders are also going unsolved) so people associate rapists with escaping justice more frequently, and 3) people can conceive of killing someone by accident or in self-defense (which has resulted in MANY people getting convicted for murder, not just manslaughter), but there's really no way to rape someone accidentally or in self-defense. Would you say you agree or disagree with this?
it's harder to secure a conviction for rape cases than it is for either manslaugher or murder
No it isn't. They are convicted at about the same rate. The difference is that if someone is found innocent of murder, they are innocent of murder. If someone is found innocent of rape, people twist themselves in knots to argue they're not.
Not every murder case is treated like OJ, but every rape case IS.
People DO in fact associate rapists with escaping justice more frequently, but the reality is they don't actually escape justice more frequently.
people can conceive of killing someone by accident or in self-defense (which has resulted in MANY people getting convicted for murder, not just manslaughter), but there's really no way to rape someone accidentally or in self-defense.
If you have sex with someone who is drunk and didn't know they were drunk, that'd be an example of it being accidental, it's just that the supposed victim in that case is more likely to view it as an embarrassing mistake on their part and resolve to drink less.
I mean if you get hammered and fuck someone, wake up in their bed the next morning, and tell them "I was hammered as fuck" they're likely to apologize to you. Profusely.
Furthermore people who commit rape try to justify it all the time. The two crimes have equal amounts of people hand-wringing and/or fantasizing about someone "deserving it" or it not being the perpetrator's fault. People can often imagine scenarios where they would be justified in killing someone, that doesn't mean they actually would be.
But the two are equally unjustifiable because a justified killing is not what Murder means, and consensual sex is not what Rape means.
No, people view rape as worse than murder because they have to actually see the damage it does to the victim with their own eyes. A lot of people can't comprehend the complete loss of a person, the totality of their very being wiped out in an instant. If you've never lost someone, you can't fully comprehend the notion that they are gone forever.
It's an executioner's fallacy.
titsay
romaincrisis
stormborns
ellievsbear
izzy806
germansingergirl
yousharknotpass
dailybridgerton
