Your view is very materialistic. Do you have a problem with God's command that a man who rapes a woman is to be punished by having to marry her?
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Who's being punished again?
OR...
So, Eladar, if I want to marry your sister/daughter/niece, I don't need to try to go on a date with her, by her candy and flowers, spend money on movies and dinner, buy a diamond ring...
Yeah, I have a problem with that. It's borderline nonsense even in the legal tradition it came from. Even if you do see women as property, why should you be rewarded with the "damaged" "property" when you violated it in the first place?
That particular rule is an insult both to modern concepts of human dignity and ancient conceptions of property rights. It doesn't work in either era.
So now marriage is a punishment? Odd....
Also, the man would be able to do whatever he wanted to the woman WHENEVER he wanted. That isn't good.
Yes, I do have a problem with it. I have a MAJOR problem with it, and I have a feeling that you would too, if it was your daughter/sister/niece who was involved in that situation. Especially since she's being punished much more than her attacker is. What kind of idiot thought that that law would be a good idea?
[If someone were desperate enough to rape my ex, marrying her would be a punishment for his past three lives, maybe.]
Christian courtship: drag the woman into the bushes behind the church and fuck her hard. Curse her for being a slut while you're at it. Claim her as your own property; pay her father a gratuity.
Making friends first, is not on the agenda.
@580864, the misogynist Paul, probably.
Yes I have a BIG problem with someone saying that any woman who has had to suffer from being raped should be forced to marry the person who raped them.
I could see how if a woman were forced to do so, could feel obligated to then divorce her rapist from his testicles. Slowly, with a dull knife, and battery acid as the disinfectant, because no woman should have to see or hear from her rapist again. let alone be legally bound against her will to him as long as he was alive.
Kindly go DIAF
@Brian X:
He was also forced to pay her father a specified sum, which in context appears to be the value the ancient Israelites thought a virgin daughter was worth to the father. While I do not see females as property of their fathers, I do consider it an intuitively reasonable punishment when applied to inanimate objects. The practice, when applied to inanimate objects such as pillows, appears common (or at least prominent) in the real world and depictions thereof, commonly linked to the slogan "you break it, you buy it" and the irate shopkeeper stock character.
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