# to rape or not to rape?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 24, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-rape-or-not-to-rape/138452 "2002-11-24T05:16:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-rape-or-not-to-rape/138452/41 "2002-11-26T01:49:25Z")

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It didn’t say what the scope of that factoid was.

And those are actually _my words_. The blurb at the end of the movies actually said “Every minute a woman is raped. 4 out of 5 go unreported.”

Using my admitted public school education, I came up with those numbers myself.

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**Author:** ![Justhink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@Justhink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justhink)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-rape-or-not-to-rape/138452/42 "2003-01-03T16:25:35Z")

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> Exactly that happens in war all the time. Most people don’t find it to be anything less than acceptable. Yes we’d rather avoid it, but if the choice is between bombing Nagasaki and killing 500, 000 or losing 5 million lives storming the beaches then we bomb Nagasaki.

_tsk_ _tsk_

If you kill the entire human population on earth (say 6 billion lives), to save the deaths of an infinite amount of lives (or 90 trillion intentional murders of one human by another), then that’s what we do.

-Justhink

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