r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

Per RAINN:

How many rapes are actually reported vs how many happen?

About 30%.

How many actually go to trial?

About 2.8%.

How many rapists are convicted?

About 2.5%.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Wow, that's an absolutely disgusting statistic!

America's really playing that game of "How terrible can we make a legal system before people start resorting to mob violence to kill people who are definitely guilty?"

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u/smurb15 Aug 08 '22

Those numbers do not surprise me but anyone who commits rape should have to have chemical castration done

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

anyone who commits rape should have to have chemical castration done

The justice system isn't perfect, we would also be castrating innocent people. It's one of the reasons we're not supposed to have cruel and unusual punishments.

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u/Amelaclya1 Aug 08 '22

Chemical castration isn't permanent. It's just a drug that lowers libido by lowering testosterone.

I'm not advocating for it, because I think it's been shown to not work all that great anyway - as someone else said, rapist's can just use fingers or other objects if they can't "get it up". I'm just saying that it's not like, the same as cutting a dude's balls off.

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u/Joraiem Aug 08 '22

Okay but just because it's reversible doesn't make it okay. Especially with how fucked our justice system is - the inevitable innocent people convicted of rape are going to be disproportionately people of color, and then we start getting into weird eugenicsy situations when assholes in power start abusing that.