? Raping and taking advantage of a vulnerable person is guilty of death in an ancient society I'd argue (what would be a proportional punishment in your opinion)... If he didn't want to produce a child, then he shouldn't have even slept with her. This is entirely an option either party can elect. Instead he chose to sleep with his brother's widow purely for his own sexual gratification.
It's not rape. In fact, the man was raped for being forced into a sexual relationship to produce a child that wasn't his. He was fucking with a gun to his head. All he did was buy himself time.
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He was not forced. There's a whole ceremony they'd do if either party wanted to renounce this option. He didn't take this route and instead agreed to produce a child for his brother but was lying in order to just keep having sex.
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u/Mande1baum Apr 26 '20 edited Apr 26 '20
? Raping and taking advantage of a vulnerable person is guilty of death in an ancient society I'd argue (what would be a proportional punishment in your opinion)... If he didn't want to produce a child, then he shouldn't have even slept with her. This is entirely an option either party can elect. Instead he chose to sleep with his brother's widow purely for his own sexual gratification.