# Dear kanicbird: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-kanicbird/539117 "2010-05-11T23:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 87
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-kanicbird/539117/87 "2010-05-22T05:14:31Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Wait, what? He said that? He actually \*\*said \*\*that _a rape victim somehow magically forced their rapist to violate them so that they didn’t have to feel bad about having sex_? > > I have not words. > [@Have rape victims the moral or ethical obligation to prosecute their rapists?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-rape-victims-the-moral-or-ethical-obligation-to-prosecute-their-rapists/540258/7): > > IMHO the victim needs to forgive totally, and not prosecute, which is state sponsored revenge. Forgiving them totally will either help reform them or make their present path much much worse, revenge will help them continue in evil, even through this may or may not be evil committed in jail. > > Forgiving them will take the healing out of the hands of the state and their process, and place it in the victim’s. It’s a pity I’m not actually a super-villain, isn’t it? Because I could TOTALLY use that miserable, hatefilled, shit-eating misogynistic fuckwit to torture the innocent captives in my dungeons. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-kanicbird/539117)._