[Discuss] Status ?

[James Spadaccini]

Peter Weisberg wrote:
> On 7/3/06, James Spadaccini <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>  You still haven't
>> answered my question as to what it adds to the game either.
>
> Emotional turmoil.  Mental illness (either a symptom for the
> aggressor* or a cause of depression or post-traumatic stress for the
> victim).  It stirs up very visceral feelings.  It's a topic that
> someone might want to talk about or deal with in a fictional way,
> holding it at a distance but still looking at it.
>
> Here's a thread I read on the BookCrossing forum a while ago that
> could be relevant, about rape in literature:
> http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/6/2720363/msgsort_1
>
> Bottom line, no subject in itself should be off-limits.
>
> *I realize a lot of people have gotten off on an "insanity defense"
> when they really should have gone to prison, and I just called rape a
> symptom of mental illness.  So I just wanted to be clear that I do
> *not* think that insanity is a mitigating circumstance in the case of
> violent crime.  In fact I think the unreasonable and unpredictable
> violence of insanity should, if anything, be dealt with *more*
> harshly, since it's much more dangerous.  Maybe that supports the "I'm
> just an ass" theory.  If you want to argue with me about this, please
> don't do it on the list.
>
>
You can't do that without entering rape into it?