"Jay P Hailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in part: >>>Also, what about the male nurse who rapes a comatose woman? Is it ok if >> he >>>uses a condom so she doesn't get pregnant? After all, she can't object. >>>How can she be a victim? Isn't your condemnation of such an act a moral >>>judgement? (I can't imagine anyone on this list who wouldn't be disgusted >>>by such a thing and think the perpetrator deserves anything less than the >>>full FORCE of the government coming down on him.)
>Since the woman's body is her primary property, the male nurse has committed >serious aggression. Really? What are the damages? If someone removes a comatose body (which I guess you refer to as "primary property") from a 3rd party's RR tracks (yet someone else's property), the remover is doing things to or on other people's property, but is not doing any harm. The remover is at least conferring a probable benefit on the owner of the body being taken off the tracks, and at least doing no harm to the owner of the RR tracks. In the case of the supposed "rape" above (presumably some form of sexual contact, whether with the penis or something else), there is no benefit to the owner of the comatose body. However, things can also be arranged so that there is no harm to the owner of the comatose body -- i.e. no tearing, no pregnancy, and (probably most important) no knowledge by anybody else (including the comatose person) of the act's having been committed. I can see only 2 types of damage from rape: physical & psychologic. We're ruling out the physical damage already. That leaves only the possibility of psychologic damage, i.e. hurt feelings. One's feelings cannot be hurt by things that don't come to one's att'n! I suppose I could hunt farther for possible harms in such a case. There might conceivably be economic harm in the form of foregone income if the comatose person were a prostitute. Any other ideas for harms I might be overlooking? If not, I rest my case. Truly I So Briney, Robert _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
