| Counter-rotating the Spin-Doctorism. (Something Else) -
08-16-2007, 09:43 PM
The fastest growing violent crime in the nation is rape.
A remarkable percentage of polled people don't know this (priority issue of public endangerment).
It would be more easily recognized as a grievous national affliction (a symptom of a deeper running malady, namely the ongoing <'What?"> epedemic of violence),
except, in many states it is not called - or otherwise identified as being - what it is...
No indeed, in many legal cases, if rape happens to a man it is called 'assault'.
If the same thing that happens to a raped woman, on the other hand, happens to a child, it is called 'molestation'.
The measured rape rate ('is going down') would be much higher, if it was uniformly recognized and categorized for what it is, rather than on the Orwellian language twisting and communications trashing standard of who the identically raped victim - and their age - happens to be.
Regards,
- RP
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |