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From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape?
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 13:52:04 EST
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carlo suggests that men who rape will spread their genes around, thus presumably
spreading around the 'tendency to rape'. This is fine, if you believe that
rape is genetically programmed rather than socially programmed. There is
little evidence for genetic programming of complex social behaviour in
higher organisms (R. Dawkins and the selfish gene notwithstanding) -- in
fact this is a complex issue which is the crux of the current argument
in sociobiology

   Even if you believe that 'tendency to rape' is genetically programmed,
that doesn't excuse rape. Some people appear to be angrier than others
"by nature", but that doesn't mean it's ok for them to murder...