Posted by The Man With No Name on 10/07/05 04:51

"Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:slrndkbpf4.v9i.nospam@debian.dns2go.com...
> The Man With No Name wrote on [Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:22:48 +1000]:
>>
>> "Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>> news:slrndkb15u.v9i.nospam@debian.dns2go.com...
>>> Stan Brown wrote on [Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:56:12 -0400]:
>>>> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:47:43 -0400 in alt.video.dvd, Allan favored us
>>>> with...
>>>>> "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
>>>>> because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be
>>>>> indistinguishable
>>>>> from
>>>>> -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of
>>>>> free
>>>>> time."
>>>>> - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
>>>>
>>>> Great line, and oh so true!
>>>>
>>>> Viz a recent thread in rec.arts.tv where some morons insisted that
>>>> Carlos tampering with Gabby's birth control pills on /Desperate
>>>> Housewives/ was rape. Their justification was that it was more
>>>> serious than jaywalking, or something.
>>>
>>> Well, it kind of is. Instead of non impregnating sex she got
>>> impregnating sex and stuck with those consequences.
>>
>> So then, is it still rape if you use a condom?
>
> In that situation, no.
>
> Deliberately misleading someone into believing they have a birth control
> method in play and you clearly know they don't.
>
> Sort of like knowing you have an STD and the other person doesn't know
>

Well, how is that rape?
I can see how most people would consider it immoral. You could even make a
good argument that it's a form of murder.
But, I don't think anyone would consider deliberately infecting someone
with an STD to be rape.

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