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GeoWilliam750

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7. Always makes me wonder
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 03:12 AM
Dec 2014

It is reported that about one in five women are raped, and more are the victims of violence; based on what my friends and family have told me, I see no reason to doubt these statistics.

Heaven knows how many many women each rapist victimises (directly), but probably a large number. This would tend to suggest that rapists form about 1-2pc of the male population, a number not terribly dissimilar to the percentage of sociopaths, and probably with much overlap. The other 98-99% May be decent men, but we need to find a way to curb the sociopaths, who cause enormous suffering to so many innocents.

As a society, we admire bullies, and those that can simply take from others at will, despising the weak, less powerful and vulnerable, regarding them as sheep to be sheared - and deserving it.

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