Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!jfh From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape? Message-ID: <1674@browngr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 13:52:04 EST Article-I.D.: browngr.1674 Posted: Sat Dec 8 13:52:04 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 01:38:59 EST References: watarts.8164, <10011@watmath.UUCP> <136@ihu1m.UUCP>, <10054@watmath.UUCP> <8162@ Lines: 12 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...