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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 months agosounds like you are trying to say that kidnap and rape are magnitudes more horrible than being horribly murdered?
that’s a bingo. Kidnap, imprisonment and rape are worse, in my opinion, than just being murdered.
And it’s hardly an isolated incident:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case
en.wikipedia.org/…/Kidnapping_of_Tanya_Nicole_Kac…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch
en.wikipedia.org/…/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard
cbsnews.com/…/elk-grove-kidnapping-rape-assault-s…
just a few moments search. I’m certain there’s far more. <barf>
Kacarott@feddit.de 4 months ago
It wasn’t whether they are worse, but if they are magnitudes worse. If the kidnap, imprisonment and rape of one person is comparable to the murder of hundreds or thousands of people (since that would be magnitudes more).
In my opinion to call one magnitudes worse than the other is to immensely downplay the seriousness of the other.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean, one death by bear, vs., years of imprisonment and repeated sexual assault with no end in site. seems like magnitudes of difference to me. YMMV
Kacarott@feddit.de 4 months ago
Ah ok. I was thinking of specific instances rather than an indefinitely long situation, so I see where you are coming from now.