They state that they believe that this ruins the woman's marital prospects forever, but that didn't stop them from doing it.
Even within their belief system, they are acting monstrously.
Interviewing them is a great idea, but the researchers should be open to the idea that the main problem is the boring, standard idea that violent criminals have little empathy for their victims, and little impulse control.
The researchers should be open to the idea that the main problem is the boring, standard idea that violent criminals have little empathy for their victims, and little impulse control.
A programming analogy would be like this is a bug in their code, and our current method of dealing with it is to kill their process or filter their "standard out" to avoid/ignore the unpleasant buggy output. What if instead, we could come to comprehend a deeper architecture problem that we could then prevent or fix by refactoring?
Our brains are machines that we don't fully understand, it could be useful to discover why rapists rape. If you had lived one of those guys on the bus' life, would you have participated? Or are people like this born broken, never to be fixed, and we may as well throw away the key? It's a bit like Star Trek: Nemesis.
In some future if we could give a convicted rapist a pill that we scientifically know would prevent him from ever having a rape impulse again, would we accept him back into society? What if it was preventative?
Your line of reasoning is totally normal for the human condition and has been used for thousands of years now. Here we are today without any lack of morally reprehensible problems. Don't you think it's time we changed our strategy and rose above this animalistic, purely instinctual nature? It's time we got out of this mess.
The poster's reaction is justified disgust toward someone who is clearly dangerous to his fellow humans.
Why should traditions that have served humanity well be cast aside because it is $CURRENTYEAR? The burden of proof is on those who would do otherwise, not the natural and obvious thing.
I am not looking for such a course for the rapist sake, but to protect any future victims.
[fn:1] Not including, obviously, cases where they were both drunk or where one party later regretted it.