sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (06/13/85)
Maybe the question should be instead "are women more afraid of being raped,
or of being murdered?". One might find that even though murder is worse
than rape that more women are afraid of being raped than of being murdered
(until of course they are raped, at which point they are probably afraid of
being murdered as well). Well, actually I am only speaking for myself now.
I certainly do know that I worry much more about the danger of being raped
than the danger of being murdered.
--
Sophie Quigley
{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophiezubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) (06/14/85)
> Maybe the question should be instead "are women more afraid of being raped, > or of being murdered?". One might find that even though murder is worse > than rape that more women are afraid of being raped than of being murdered > (until of course they are raped, at which point they are probably afraid of > being murdered as well). Well, actually I am only speaking for myself now. > I certainly do know that I worry much more about the danger of being raped > than the danger of being murdered. > -- > Sophie Quigley > {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie If I had been murdered I would not now be writing this article! If I had been murdered I would not wake up screaming in the middle of the night. If I had been merdered I would not be afraid at times of even my best men friends and even relatives If I had been murdered I would not be afraid of passing something emotional to my daughter which could make her life less full beautiful. If I had been murdered I would not have to worry about keeping my life full of things to keep me from remembering. If I had been murdered.... If I had been.... If I had.... If I If if jeanette l. zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie
srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) (06/15/85)
All these left-brained explanations of how you can't recover from murder
miss the point.
We're all going to die, and if you murder me you've taken a certain quantity
of my life from me. You haven't necessarily changed the total quality
of my life, integrated from birth to death (how's that for left-brained!).
If you do something--even to someone else--that lowers the quality of my
life, then you may have hurt me even more. That depends on what my values
are. I may value quality of life over quantity.
--
Richard Mateosian
{cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPAsunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) (06/20/85)
> All these left-brained explanations of how you can't recover from murder > miss the point. > > We're all going to die, and if you murder me you've taken a certain quantity > of my life from me. You haven't necessarily changed the total quality > of my life, integrated from birth to death (how's that for left-brained!). > > If you do something--even to someone else--that lowers the quality of my > life, then you may have hurt me even more. That depends on what my values > are. I may value quality of life over quantity. > -- > Richard Mateosian > {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA Hurting any one of us hurts all of us. nuff said Sunny -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)