>>>>Life is full of those choices and what we call "character" is largely defined by the way a person handles them.
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>>>That's rich, Bill, really rich. Every year, roughly 25,000 or so women - raped, brutalized, traumatized, will probably never be the same again....and carrying a rapist's baby. A rapist, possibly carrying a disease, a chemical imbalance with a propensity for violence....and your answer to a woman making possibly the most intimate, crucial, and tragic decision of her life is the "character-building" line.
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>>>People will call you many things for this "character" comment (and you'll likely deserve every one of them). For me, I'll simply say that if you truly believe that, you are not a defender of individual rights.
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>To be clear, I'm not talking about consensual activity with very bad judgment.
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>I'm talking about someone's life changing by force, where the person had the ability to make a judgment taken away (rape)
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>I'm sorry you had a different, but very important, right taken away from you. It's unfortunate that the draft (which I have never agreed with, and I'm assuming that's what you mean) didn't have the context then that it does now. Namely, that most military authorities oppose it.
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>So truthfully, I'm a little unclear what you're saying.