TMG writes:
See, I have a hard time with the whole "a false accuser is worse than a rapist" assertion. I can definitely see your points, here, especially in cases where an actual "perpetrator" has been named. But some of these false accusations are vague claims that don't name anyone. No one's in danger of being prosecuted unfairly.
That's not true. There several of these cases where a "victim" of a made-up rape give a good enough description of her imaginary rapist that cops feel compelled to take someone resembling that description into custody. By then, the accuser is locked into that story, and the stunned, innocent man is well on his way to a wrongful conviction.
I feel like there are different levels (not that any of them are *good*, by any means), whereas all rapists, imo, are committing the same crime, just with varying degrees of violence.
There are different levels there, too. Date rape, spousal rape. Rapes with and without excessive violence. Rapes with and without a weapon. Rapes with and without threats to the women's children or other family members. But yet the minimum punishment for the mildest of rapes rarely is less severe than the maximum punishment of the worst false accusation. A little equality would be nice, is all.
But back to the first issue...I guess I was under the impression that you *are* blaming an entire gender (us women). The reason I thought that was because of your post a few days ago where you wished (as a result of yet another false rape accusation story) that you would someday get on the jury in a rape case, so you could help get the perp off. I believe you even wished that the victim was a sweet, innocent virgin who'd never done any harm to anyone.
So...since that is clearly not justice for that innocent, blameless woman...am I not correct in my grasp of your view?
A little off. It was just taking my "what's good for the goose, is good for the gander" arguement to it's fullest extreme. My implication was that everyone who thought that False Accusations didn't warrent punishment, was an accomplice to the rape and injustice to the hypothetical innocent victim. And of course, I would be sad if such an individual were raped, even moreso if it were someone I was already fond of. But Injustice makes me even more sad. And the injustice of allowing FRA's to flourish will be what leads to more rapes taking place, and more rapists going unpunished.
--Ray
