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Comment author: [deleted] 17 February 2013 09:13:19PM *  10 points [-]

Generally speaking, I've noticed that mentioning rape tends to mind-kill people on the Internet much more than mentioning murder. I hypothesize this is due to the fact that many more people are actually raped than murdered.

Comment author: Oligopsony 20 February 2013 05:11:59PM 4 points [-]

This difference in commonality extends not only to victims but to perpetrators. A higher proportion of people who find rape funny will be rapists than those who find murder funny will be murderers; murder is much harder to get away with.