Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Rape Message-ID: <375@pucc-k> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 04:34:39 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-k.375 Posted: Wed Oct 3 04:34:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 01:46:44 EDT References: <1246@ihuxq.UUCP>, <351@pucc-k> <1253@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Alcohol Design and Application Corp. Lines: 36 > To place an individual, a rapist, in a position which has the postential > to make the rapist the raped is the point which would cause the rapist to > inflict punishment on himself, psychologically at least. I think you're dead wrong!!! From what I understand, the most common reason for people to get sex changes is because they feel in their minds that they are in the wrong body. If you follow this logically, a rapist with a sex change would still feel like a man (In the most common form of rape, male attacks female). I also don't think that he would keep that anger inside, but would be MORE likely to continue attacking women, simply because he feels they are to blame. He would most likely do more harm to society than he would to himself (I guess this should be changed to "she" now, although it is still my feeling that he/she/it would still feel masculine). OK, so now he can't rape women. He can still assault them physically and kill them. On top of this, I feel, without a question of a doubt, that this would fall under "cruel and unusual punishment"! Especially unusual. By forcing a person to walk around in a body which is not, in all aspects, how he knows himself IS torture. Therefore it is also cruel. I think putting a rapist in prison for a minimum sentence of, oh, say, twenty years would be more like it. I also would have no real complaint if the death penalty was used in exceptionally violent cases. I hate to have to say this, but a sex change as punishment for rapist has to, without a question of a doubt, *the most* assinine idea I have ever heard of regarding this subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!inhp4}!pucc-k!agz Alcohol Design and Application Corp. --- Serving people over 21 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When you were done, you just threw down the blade. And the red blood spread like the anger you'd made ... "