he's supposed to have not fucking raped her in the first place.
once you've gone and committed the rape, there isn't any "right" way to handle it afterwards. there is no correct way to deal with the fact that you've fucking raped a person. no matter what you do, it's going to be shitty and people are going to hate you for it, because you did a shitty hateful thing and you are a shitty hateful person. no amount of ~soul searching~ and ~inner growth~ will remove those consequences.
if you murder someone and get sentenced to life in prison, they don't let you out of jail after ten years because you've ~become a better man~
in a perfect world funk would be in prison right now. he isn't, and he's not going to be, because the world sucks. but that doesn't mean that he gets out of punishment. his punishment, rather than living in a cell, is having us all hate his piece of shit rapist guts no matter what he does. he can't escape us hating his shitty rapist guts by saying he's very sorry any more than a murderer can escape jail by saying he's very sorry
if this sounds unfair, there is an easy way to avoid it
As someone who actually works within the confines of our fucked-up criminal justice system, there's actually far less of an emphasis placed on being sorry, repentance and rehabilitation than there NEEDS to be. Frankly, if we could have a lot more psychs to help inmates work through their issues--and believe me, guilt causes a lot of fucking issues--it'd be infinitely better.
You're not wrong. He should never have done it and the consequence is knowing that people will hate him on top of whatever guilt and shame he feels. But I'm sorry, from my place in the system, repentance and rehabilitation is way undervalued.
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Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-04-14 05:23 am (UTC)(link)once you've gone and committed the rape, there isn't any "right" way to handle it afterwards. there is no correct way to deal with the fact that you've fucking raped a person. no matter what you do, it's going to be shitty and people are going to hate you for it, because you did a shitty hateful thing and you are a shitty hateful person. no amount of ~soul searching~ and ~inner growth~ will remove those consequences.
if you murder someone and get sentenced to life in prison, they don't let you out of jail after ten years because you've ~become a better man~
in a perfect world funk would be in prison right now. he isn't, and he's not going to be, because the world sucks. but that doesn't mean that he gets out of punishment. his punishment, rather than living in a cell, is having us all hate his piece of shit rapist guts no matter what he does. he can't escape us hating his shitty rapist guts by saying he's very sorry any more than a murderer can escape jail by saying he's very sorry
if this sounds unfair, there is an easy way to avoid it
don't fucking rape people
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-04-14 05:25 am (UTC)(link)+infinity
(Anonymous) 2013-04-14 05:28 am (UTC)(link)Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-04-14 05:34 am (UTC)(link)You're not wrong. He should never have done it and the consequence is knowing that people will hate him on top of whatever guilt and shame he feels. But I'm sorry, from my place in the system, repentance and rehabilitation is way undervalued.
(Also, it's called parole.)