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Comment author: fubarobfusco 29 November 2013 10:19:44PM 7 points [-]

And that isn't merely a society in which one in a million people have to suffer their wife being raped;

It's also a society in which an equivalent number have to suffer being raped.

I'm a little bit appalled to find a line of argument here that implies that only men are people!

Comment author: [deleted] 29 November 2013 11:27:54PM 6 points [-]

It jarred me too, but I don't like to point out factor-of-two mistakes in arguments relying on orders-of-magnitude differences because this.

(Well, that may be problematic for different reasons too, but I was stunned speechless by the fact that a discussion mentioning rape had managed not to mindkill anybody thus far, and was afraid that calling that out could break the spell.)

Comment author: ialdabaoth 30 November 2013 12:26:38AM *  -1 points [-]

Scratch everything I just said, army1987 just summed up my position far more succinctly than I did.

EDIT: Really?

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