Subject: Re: [FFML] don't mean to be cold...but...
From: Caroline Ann Seawright
Date: 5/13/1996, 1:38 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

The law has nothing to do with what deserves to be done to rapists.
Are you advocating a state of lawlessness to justify a thirst for revenge?
There is a difference between what they DESERVE and what actually happens.
Was it mentioned that the law should be changed to give them what they
deserve? No. It just stated the difference between what SHOULD be done and
what IS done.
     Sorry, Kun, but you are blatently wrong. You said "the law has
nothing to do with what deserves to be done to rapists" implying
punishment for rape should lie outside the laws. The logical extention
of this is that punishment for rape should allow anything, including
means which are more psychologically and/or physically damaging than
the act of rape itself.

I was actually talking about the fact that the law doesn't give the rapist
what he deserves. It just gives the rapist whatever the law is set to give
him... I wasn't implying anything else... if it sounded like I was, then I
still wasn't implying that.

What the rapist deserves is not what the rapist gets... Not that the law
should be changed to give the rapist what he deserves... (or 'she' as the
case may be)

Kun-chan...