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**** It\'s about \'\'people thinking they are above the law\'\' and being \'\'right\'\'. The \
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**** It\\\'s about \\\'\\\'people thinking they are above the law\\\'\\\' and being \\\'\\\'right\\\'\\\'. The \\\"abuse\\\" in question isn\\\'t rape, it\\\'s [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney using your fame, wealth, and connections to ensure that your ass is covered for whatever nasty thing you choose to do.]]
*** Also, consider culture A, where the rule is \\\"rape is illegal, because it is a breach of a woman\\\'s human rights\\\" versus culture B, where the rule is \\\"rape is illegal, because it is a breach of her husband\\\'s property rights\\\". Both of these cultures will have fewer rapes than one with no rule at all, but nevertheless you would not call them equally ethical.
*** In this case the \\\"seeming implication\\\" was seen mostly by readers who were told to see it by a popular feminist blog. Judging by earlier reviews on Ch. 7, most readers before then read the author\\\'s intended implication, that in some societies it\\\'s the exception and in others the quietly accepted rule.
**** Which blog would that be? I tried looking for it but my Google-fu failed me.
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**** It\'s about \'\'people thinking they are above the law\'\' and being \'\'right\'\'. The \
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**** It\\\'s about \\\'\\\'people thinking they are above the law\\\'\\\' and being \\\'\\\'right\\\'\\\'. The \\\"abuse\\\" in question isn\\\'t rape, it\\\'s [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney using your fame, wealth, and connections to ensure that your ass is covered for whatever nasty thing you choose to do.]]
*** Also, consider culture A, where the rule is \\\"rape is illegal, because it is a breach of a woman\\\'s human rights\\\" versus culture B, where the rule is \\\"rape is illegal, because it is a breach of her husband\\\'s property rights\\\". Both of these cultures will have fewer rapes than one with no rule at all, but nevertheless you would not call them equally ethical.
*** In this case the \\\"seeming implication\\\" was seen mostly by readers who were told to see it by a popular feminist blog. Judging by earlier reviews on Ch. 7, most readers before then read the author\\\'s intended implication, that in some societies it\\\'s the exception and in others the quietly accepted rule.
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[[CompletelyMissingYourPoint Phbt. Your computer\'s just slow.]]
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[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Phbt. Your computer\\\'s just slow.]]
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