Censorship, Environmentalism and Steubenville at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
Note added on 4/5: Some readers missed the point of this post very badly, which means that it could have been written more clearly. Here is a brief attempt to clarify. Here are three dilemmas about public policy: Farnsworth McCrankypants just hates the idea that someone, somewhere might be looking at pornography. Granola McMustardseed just hates the idea that someone, somewhere might be altering the natural state of a wilderness area. Let’s suppose that you, or I, or someone we love, or someone we care about from afar, is raped while unconscious in a way that causes no direct physical harm — no injury, no pregnancy, no disease transmission. If your answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 were not all identical, what is the key difference among them? A. B. C. D. E. F. Edited to add: Some commenters have suggested that Question 3, unlike Questions 1 and 2, involves a violation of property rights.
[FIRST (MINI) EFFORT][MASSIVE TW] The ever-open-minded Reddit wants to hear "the other side" of the story... What about the poor rapists? : ShitRedditSays
Live Through This
Mermaid, oil on linen, 2012, by Allison Schulnik NOTE: This essay contains graphic descriptions of rape.When I was in junior high, my friend Julia (not her real name) told me over the phone that she’d just lost her virginity to a neighbor who’d found her crying at home alone over a breakup. She was home alone, crying, when he’d knocked on the door and she invited him in. They’d sat down on the couch together as he comforted her, and then he fucked her there. She was 11. To whatever extent we can trust my memory from 17 years ago, I remember Julia sounded ambivalent, a little surprised and a little uncertain. In our society, we recognize this as rape, an act of violence that in all its permutations (date, stranger, violent, anal, oral, gang) is understood to be the worst thing that can happen to a woman — worse than a serious car accident, worse than a protracted divorce, worse than the death of a parent. After he left, I gradually became furious. Then I mostly forgot about it.
« Consentement » ? un vice de procédure dans la qualification pénale des crimes sexistes.
Un vice de procédure qui attaque nos droits fondamentaux. Dans la loi, le consentement de la victime est sans incidence sur la qualification des crimes (viol, meurtre, torture et actes de barbarie). De même, le consentement des femmes à être prostituée par les hommes (clients-prostitueurs et/ou proxénètes) ne peut raisonnablement être invoqué pour légaliser la prostitution. Au plan pénal, ce sont les actes de l’agresseur qui sont jugés : pour le viol, il y a 4 éléments : la surprise, la contrainte, la menace et l’usage de la violence. Le fait que la notion fantôme de consentement prévale sur la notion juridique elle-même (consentement vs viol) n’a rien de fortuit. Quand est-ce que la notion de consentement contrevient à la qualification des violences et crimes les plus graves ? Et puisque le Législateur et ses exécutants sont fins psychologues …… Les procès pour viol deviennent magiquement des procès d’intention contre la victime : consenti, pas consenti, à quoi, pourquoi ?
