Yes, but we are talking about humans and humans, not humans and sharks. There are species in which some of the females will transform into a male when there is a shortage of males in the population. According to systems theory, as evidenced by the likely eventual collapse of anything the conservative mass in the middle regards as likely to be safe harbor or investment, human beings are highly adaptable omnivores that will feed on anything that has grown fat and lazy under sheltered skies, as well as the naive,weak and the reckless. If you don't believe me, just go ask any of the 30 million* dead buffalo.Riggerjack wrote:If we net off a section of the beach to make a safe zone, relatively free of sharks, swimmers will congregate in the center, and along the nets, according to their risk tolerance/appeal. This current scandal is about "where to draw the line". Which translates to where to put the nets in my analogy. Where the nets are hardly matters. Wherever they are, there will be a congregation of swimmers in the center, and then there will be the ones who can only find their thrills just inside, just outside, or literally on top of the net, opening up an avenue for sharks. This is just human nature.
OTOH, I think what is becoming obvious from what you wrote, and the course of this discussion in general, is that we need to have (at least) Rape1 and Rape2 flows on our systems diagram. For instance, the way J.Bozo (I can't even type his real name because he is so powerful he might strike me dead from his realm far, far above the cloud storage of the internet) recently "raped" me by not honoring contract to pay proceeds from liquidation of my rare book inventory within time frame clearly designated would be in category of "Rape2" along with all the other powerful celebrity and politician and other people who think they are beyond touch or reproach "rapes." The "Rape1" flow would be all the stupid bandit rapes and "rapes" committed by individuals who don't have enough to lose to worry about risk. Obviously, actual violent rape would rarely be committed by category 2 "rapists" because they are not so besotted with the oxygen-high of their own power structure to think they can get away with that sort of thing without severe penalty.
@jacob:
No need to fret or apologize. Quite obvious this is a forum conducted in the quadrant of adult "masculine" energy. Goes along with the topic. According to old school wisdom, "conservation of resources" is the provenance of the adult masculine. Freedom is the provenance of the juvenile masculine. That's why in old-fashioned setting romantic novels females have to bind their breasts and disguise themselves in male clothing if they want to go off on an adventure. I hope nobody takes this in the wrong way, I mean it as compliment, but prior to reading some of the posts in this thread where some of the INTJ female forum members somewhat described what they really look like, I was picturing them all looking like some variation on Miss Fisher from the Miss Fisher mysteries or Amelia Earhart.
*True number. Saddening.