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From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 04:34:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 04:34:39 1984
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> 	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.


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Andy Banta			{decvax!allegra!inhp4}!pucc-k!agz
Alcohol Design and Application Corp. --- Serving people over 21 years.
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"When you were done, you just threw down the blade.
 And the red blood spread like the anger you'd made ... "