[LAF] omfg

[Sarah Loewenbein]

Hello,
 
Thank you for answering my question. My next query, if you are still interested in this conversation, is what should a community do if it knows one of its members is a rapist?
 
Thanks,
Sarah> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:48:36 +0100> From: Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org> To: laf at lists.aktivix.org> Subject: Re: [LAF] omfg> > Sarah Loewenbein wrote:> > Hello,> > > > I may be missing your point, but what do rape test kits specifically > > have to do with prisons? I presume that being against prisons doesn't > > mean that you are also against some/any kind of (reparative?) justice?> > > > Sarah> > Hi,> > Well, punitive system has nothing to do with reparation, it has to do with > punishment (by the very definition of the term) in this case revenge-driven > punishment.> > Justice is such a misused term these days that i sometimes don't know what *i* > mean by it when i say the word.> > And to answer your first question, i guess that in theory it is possible to have > a society which would have a forensic test to determine if somebody has been > raped or not, but then not have a penal system to punish anybody. The thing is > that we aren't living in that society, and i find it difficult to figure out why > such an arrangement would exist, i for one would argue that without the punitive > measures in place it would be much more constructive to simply take the > survivor's word for it, and accept it all as truth.> > So i was talking about the society which we have today, not some hypothetical > one; and today forensic examination is done in the case of rape for one reason > and one reason alone, and that is to have the "evidence" in the "court of law" > to incarcerate somebody.> > My point, however, was that my opposition to the penal system is an opposition > to the state having power to lock somebody up, not the opposition to the > survivor of an assault.> > - Volodya> > -- > http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Echo of Freedom, Radical Podcast> http://eng.anarchopedia.org/ Anarchopedia, A Free Knowledge Portal> http://www.freedomporn.org/ Freedom Porn, anarchist and activist smut> > "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin> > _______________________________________________> LAF mailing list> LAF at lists.aktivix.org> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/laf
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