Posted by m1s1n (216.228.171.197) on January 05, 2004 at 22:48:27:
I blog'd this, but I figured since I don't archive my stuff I might as well post it here so that it has some legacy. Feel free to comment, but I don't really know what there is to reply to.
One of my friends was raped a month ago. I just found out about it this afternoon. She is only 18 years old. I can't say if her life is ruined or not, but I have trouble seeing how she will ever trust anyone again. Everyone now poses a danger to her. It downright disgusts me. She is a nice, brilliant person and some ghoul tried to take that away. I am so angry at the world right now that I shake as I write this. How can we be so cruel to our neighbors, so uncarrying? Are we no better than pigs and ducks? To hold any one person's life and safety in disregard seems sacrelige to me. We have suddenly forgotten what it means to be human, and pure, and good. The world is a very evil place, but it doesn't have to be--we've just made it that. With our hate, our greed, and our lust. So here's a little message for my new friend Fucko Rapist: "Dear Fucko Rapist, I think it is important for you to know what you've done. If you do not hate yourself more than everyone else hates you than you are truly a lost soul. You have no chance for redemption. You have no hope for forgiveness. What you have done has tarnished you for the rest of your life. Even if you don't go to jail you are still guilty in the eyes of all her friends, family, and loved ones. Remember how she is a better person than you, and you will never be clean of the choice you made. You are responsible for what you have done, and you will face the consequences--whether judicial or personal. So Fucko Rapist remember that you didn't just hurt her--you hurt all of us. You hurt me, you hurt her family, you hurt her friends. You even hurt the entire God-damned world. Because the world is that much eviler of a place because you're in it. But the most important thing to remember is that you hurt yourself. You could've been a good person--you could have made the right choice, but you didn't. You made the selfish one, and that will tarnish your soul until the day you die. You will ALWAYS be the one who commited rape. So a good day to you Fucko Rapist, and sweet dreams."
The world is an evil place--but only because we make it so.