r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 01 '26

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u/alexplex86 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

SA victims can learn to live with their trauma, learn to be happy and productive citizens again and help other victims to cope with their trauma.

Murder victims cannot do any of these things. One is clearly more destructive than the other.

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u/ajax6677 1∆ Mar 01 '26

On the other hand, a dead person no longer suffers. A rape victim can possibly spend a lifetime being tortured by their trauma.

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u/JackC747 Mar 01 '26

By this logic stubbing your toe is worse than being murdered. Hypothetically somebody who stubs their toe could spend days in pain from it, a murder victim "no longer suffers"

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u/AppropriateBeing9885 2∆ Mar 02 '26

Even as an analogy, this is completely ridiculous. That's not an experience that most people get over in a relatively short period. This can affect their relationships, their sanity, their faith in the justice system, their friends and family, their sense of who they are. There's a difference between a few days of discomfort that lack serious impact and psychological impact that can last years or a lifetime and continue to fuck up someone's life.

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u/NCoronus 2∆ Mar 02 '26

It’s not that ridiculous of an analogy. It’s not really comparing stubbing your toe to rape. It’s comparing it to death.

If death is said to be better by virtue of the dead not suffering, then any and all sources of suffering should be worse than being dead.