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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 February 2013 03:13:17AM 2 points [-]

And that people who have been raped are much (infinitely?) more likely to go one to participate in discussions on rape than people who have been murdered are likely to participate in discussions on murder.

What about people who have had friends or relatives murdered?

Comment author: Oligopsony 20 February 2013 05:06:12PM 2 points [-]

The murder of children, I think, tends to be intrinsically serious in the way that fictional murder in general isn't. This might be part of it.

Comment author: gwern 18 February 2013 03:22:55AM 1 point [-]

Presumably there's as many such relatives as for the rape victims. (Unless lonely orphans are singled out by murderers? In order to inherit the family fortune, if I've learned anything about the real world from false made-up stories...)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 February 2013 08:34:47AM 4 points [-]

Presumably there's as many such relatives as for the rape victims.

This could be due to media filters, but I hear about people traumatized by the murder of their friends and family much more often than people traumatized by the rape of others.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 February 2013 07:31:42PM 0 points [-]

...or people who survived attempted murder, for that matter. (Still probably many fewer of them in the average internet discussion than people who survived rape or attempted rape.)

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