rape or robbery?!
Friday, December 15, 2006
After a suprisingly easy exam today, the class' chief comedian asked a silly but thought provoking question;
If you have forced carnal knowledge of a prostitute, is it rape or robbery/theft?
Just a year ago, a cabinet minister made a joke about how the US govts pressure on its Kenyan counterpart about corruption was "like raping a woman who was already too willing..." That botched joke landed him in all sorts of problems with women and women groups...so you can understand our trepidation when we just kept queit, waiting for the one girl present to bring the sky down on him but since she just broke into a smile, we had a healthy and humurous debate... that of course ended in a stalemate thanks to the one woman present. What do u think, is it rape or robbery?
5 comments:
Well, i guess a glass half-fillied with water is both half full and half empty...what am saying is that, if u look at it from two dimensions, it becomes both, rape and robbery(with violence).
So are you saying that this situation only becomes a robbery because the women is a prostitute? I don't think you can make a case for robbery because the Dictionary defines robbery as: the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.
In this case, the raper is not taking property, unless your saying that the woman's body is a property because of her profession, which in any case I disagree.
Funny, really. I would have to say rape. Since nothing in this world is black and white. You cannot easily assume that a woman who is in the profession is out of her own will and therefore categorize her body as the property.
Interesting question though. what an odd mind to think of such things.
Hayam~
kubaff osman ama steve "corrupt" identify thyself... and if i remember correctly, the end result was that, it was theft!
It is definitely a rape. No question about it.