Tapsearch Com EditorDennis Prager: Words, sadistic sexual abuse...same difference
June 28th 2007 01:14
First of all, Dennis Prager is right that the justice system did terrible things to the Duke lacrosse players. But he goes way too far with rhetoric like this:
Let's hope he never has to choose.
And two, even if you could somehow prove that the pain of slander is the same as the pain of forced sex, they are not "both rapes." Rape has a specific definition, as does slander/prosecutorial misconduct, and they're not the same thing.
The rape of a name can be as vicious a crime and as destructive an act as the rape of a body. Sometimes the rape of a body is worse, sometimes the rape of a name is worse. But they are both rapes. And morally likening the two is in no way meant to lessen the horror of rape; it is meant only to heighten awareness of the horror of intentionally destroying the name of an innocent person.
Let's hope he never has to choose.
And two, even if you could somehow prove that the pain of slander is the same as the pain of forced sex, they are not "both rapes." Rape has a specific definition, as does slander/prosecutorial misconduct, and they're not the same thing.
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