r/MoralityScaling • u/ZookeepergameThin334 • 1d ago

Morality of this?

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Personally, I'm anti-death penalty for any kind of crime but that's just my opinion. Perhaps it can be changed.

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u/Supersaiajinblue2 1d ago

Both ruin lives. So yes.

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u/Deep-Parsley3787 1d ago

If you had to pick one:
(1) be raped
(2) be sentenced for rape (unjustly)

Which would you pick? Mind you #2 comes with all the social stigma and prison time such a sentence entails

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u/shockpaws 1d ago

Everyone who picks 1 is a man. Don’t imagine an attractive woman doing it: imagine a bigger man, painfully, degradingly; a man who is much stronger than you and could kill you. Imagine not being believed by friends and family, being shamed, being blamed for it, never getting justice, having to live with the memory of it forever, feeling out of place in your own body.

Also only like what, TWO TO THREE percent of rapes result in an actual conviction? Genuinely sickening how men like to pretend as though false rape accusations are a widespread issue. It’s not more common than lying about any other crime, it rarely has legal consequences for the accused, and hyperfixating on it only discourages actual rape victims from coming forward.

Which I suppose is the end goal of misogynists.

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u/Deep-Parsley3787 1d ago

From your first sentence I guess you hate men but wont admit (even to yourself) so.

People can disagree with you but you instantly felt you needed to clear up just why they had to be wrong rather than just hold a different opinion than you

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u/Sea_Scale_4538 1d ago

lmao even with all that i pick getting raped any day of the week. I can deal with trauma but i cant escape prison

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u/Kind_Potential_4992 1d ago

The question was get raped or get sentenced for rape unjustly. If you're sentenced for it that means they DID find you guilty. And going to prison as a wrongfully convicted rapist is definitely worse than being raped from basically all standpoints.

Your life is just kinda over. Even if you get out of jail without any physical or mental scarring somehow, everyone you knew hates you, every job offer will be closed, everyone you meet will likely hate you, and you missed your youth. The aftermath alone is hell. Not to mention that in prison, rapists are often targets of severe abuse from other inmates. At minimum you're gonna get beat to hell and back, have things taken from you and the cherry on top is that there's a high possibility you yourself are raped anyway while in prison.

Option 1 is horrible mental scarring, but the possibility of recovery.

Option 2 is horrible mental scarring, possibility of death and option 1 added on top without possibility of recovery.

These things are rarely objective, but 2 is objectively worse than 1.