I couldn't disagree more with your summary. Way to sound like a civilized world, ca. 2012.
ironclad Send a noteboard - 08/09/2012 12:01:47 PM
I suppose I'd manage to feel much more sorry for her if she just shot him in self defense, didn't cut his fucking head off and would stop rambling about honor. Makes me sick.
A woman should be trialed for self defense and get away rather easily in such a case. But she should not "have every legal right to shoot someone she sees approaching her"! What is this, the middle ages?
Yes in this case, he did it over and over again for months and there was the point where she struck back. Understandable and forgivable, but her right? No. What if she shot him just before his first attack? "Yes, officer, I know he was about to rape me". Or maybe he wasn't. Where do you draw the line? You're talking about everyone taking punishment in their own hands and according to what they think will happen.
And you should know better than think that his horrible death is any deterrent for any other rapists out there. Do you honestly think they watch the news and go "Oh boy, I don't want that to happen to me, I better fight my urges, then..." Those people are sick, no deterrent will ever stop them. They have to get trialed and locked away for as long as they are a threat, no more, no less.
Makes me sick how often vigilante actions get applause lately.
I hope the woman gets a fair trial, a fitting punishment and stops ranting about honor, as if such a thing existed or mattered in such a case. I don't blame her for checking into the possibility of the abortion, though.
IF her claims are true (which may difficult to prove at this stage,) I must agree with her lawyer: A woman should have every legal right to shoot someone she sees approaching her home to rape her at gunpoint (yet again.) Likewise, if he reaches for his own gun after she does so, she should have every legal right to finish him off before he draws it. At worst I could not justify charging her with anything more than desecrating her rapists corpse. As to whether she should be able to abort her rapists baby at five months, perhaps the less I say the better. One this is certain though: If capital punishment is any deterrent at all, news of a rapist being shot, then shot in the crotch and killed, then decapitated and left in the city square ought to make rape far less common in Turkey for a while.
A woman should be trialed for self defense and get away rather easily in such a case. But she should not "have every legal right to shoot someone she sees approaching her"! What is this, the middle ages?
Yes in this case, he did it over and over again for months and there was the point where she struck back. Understandable and forgivable, but her right? No. What if she shot him just before his first attack? "Yes, officer, I know he was about to rape me". Or maybe he wasn't. Where do you draw the line? You're talking about everyone taking punishment in their own hands and according to what they think will happen.
And you should know better than think that his horrible death is any deterrent for any other rapists out there. Do you honestly think they watch the news and go "Oh boy, I don't want that to happen to me, I better fight my urges, then..." Those people are sick, no deterrent will ever stop them. They have to get trialed and locked away for as long as they are a threat, no more, no less.
Makes me sick how often vigilante actions get applause lately.
I hope the woman gets a fair trial, a fitting punishment and stops ranting about honor, as if such a thing existed or mattered in such a case. I don't blame her for checking into the possibility of the abortion, though.
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Turkish Woman Awaits Trial after Beheading Her Alleged Rapist
- 08/09/2012 02:48:21 AM
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I couldn't disagree more with your summary. Way to sound like a civilized world, ca. 2012.
- 08/09/2012 12:01:47 PM
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I never said she should assume every approaching male a rapist, and therefore shoot him.
- 08/09/2012 12:51:29 PM
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Maybe not her, but anyone who catches someone at home?
- 08/09/2012 01:06:46 PM
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If there is no chance to order them out, or they respond threateningly to the order, sure.
- 09/09/2012 02:18:02 AM
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The sad part is that she felt this was her only choice
- 08/09/2012 01:47:10 PM
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True, but I can understand it; there is a lot of stigma attached to being raped, often self-imposed.
- 09/09/2012 02:05:51 AM
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