TrilbyWill said:
elvor0 said:
Just because it's the law that doesn't make it right.
By this logic, they should be acquitted. Because, as you said, it being the law doesn't make it right.
Of course, I would get about a hundred quote-messages from people calling me a fucking idiot for saying that. Because, if I were being serious, it would be true. I said it because I was making a point: we have laws. Don't break them. If we allow one or two people to pick and choose, we should allow everyone to do so otherwise the system is broken. But if we
do then the system is broken. Because nobody should pick and choose. Everybody should be judged by the same laws.
What if, instead of reporting the crime, she'd grabbed a knife, broken into their houses and stabbed them to death? Would that be okay?
You're putting words in my mouth, taking what I said out of context. I said that specific law isn't right, I didn't say all laws should be abolished or that no laws are right. Sexually assaulting someone is morally wrong /and/ lawfully wrong. You're right, everyone should be judged by the same laws. It was once the law that black people had to sit on the other side of the bus to white people, was that right, by any standards other than the law? It changed because people stood up against it and broke the law while doing so. Laws change because people stand up against them. Okay racial discrimination vs this case is obviously out of balance, but it was just the first thing that popped into my head.
No my point is, yes we have laws, but we should be able to speak out against them. Her stating the names of her attackers is not morally wrong on any level, me going out and stabbing some is. Granted in this case, it's a bit grey as she was violated, but if she'd gone and killed them then yes it would be a bit too far and she should be jailed. But that isn't what happened, you can't base your argument on what might have happened. I'm not saying we should be able to pick and whether the law /applies/ to us if we don't agree with it. I'm saying it's a ridiculous law, and should be spoken out against. She should was making a stand against a law, which frankly, offers the perpetrators protection /for the crime they committed/, screw that.
Like I said, if someone did that to me, I'd damn well tell people who they were, and if it were possible for me to do so, go and give them a sound beating, if you wanna go and violate someone like that, you better be prepared for a smack in the chops at the very least, you shouldn't get the luxury of hiding behind the law. I don't agree that they should be allowed protection and anonymity and as we can see, she spoke out against the court order, leading to people like myself rallying around her, which ended up leading to the consequences of her actions being removed. Because it's not right, that shouldn't be the way it is. If no one ever spoke out against anything we'd just be mindless robots doing what ever the higher ups tell us just because were told to.
For a personal example, I smoke pot, which is against the law in the UK, I do not agree with that law, however were I to be caught, I'm not going to say "That shouldn't apply to me because I don't agree with it", but I do speak out against it /being/ the law, because I don't agree with it and I think it should be changed. No one in their right mind is going to argue to that Rape/Pedophillia/cold blooded murder shouldn't be a law in modern society.
What I don't understand is how everyone can be so cold and damning to to girl,