Would she have permitted paymment of the blood price, as under many traditional revenge systems? Woiuld the execution be free form or constrained, e.g. no castration or torture? What about women whose sensibilities are squeasmish or opposed to violence. Could they appoint a champion? Forgo the execution altogether? Would due process play any role in thsi, or would the oroceduree laep from accusation to execution without notice or an opportunity to be heard? Whata bout appeals? Would we be othered if a lot of rape accusations turned out to be of black men rraping white women? Would personal revenge of this sort be limited to raoe, or would it be applicable for other crimes -- murder, assault, robbery, price-fixing?
Sorry about the lawyer's questions.
--- amadeus amadeus <amadeus482000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > For Dworkin, it eventually
> > evolved into the
> > idea that rape victims should be allowed to
> > personally execute their
> > attackers. That idea was grandiose, it was
> > idealistic and, like
> > Dworkin, it was ultimately self-defeating."
>
> Just out of curiosity, and please don't take this as
> implied advocacy, what standard of measurement leads
> us to think that these ideas were "self-defeating,"
> or, as another writer said, the cause for setbacks
> in
> the feminist movement? How might this get
> determined?
> Did more rapes or denials of employment occur? I
> find
> the claims that these ideas were self-defeating to
> be
> "grandiose". Couldn't they be applied to anyone for
> anything, for any reason, without much need for
> explanation?
> People said the ideas of MLK Jr. were
> self-defeating,
> too. Prove or disprove.
>
>
>
> "Mary Poppins is alive and well in Argentina, she
> sends her regards."
> - Rod McKuen, The Mud Kids
>
>
>
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