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We also have this thing called "double jeopardy" here...so if you're found innocent, you can't be retried. So it's best to wait until a very strong case can be built against a rapist, so he can actually be put in jail, instead of trying him prematurely when he's going to get acquitted and let...

It's relevant because you're making an argument from an ideal world that doesn't exist and can't--it's a common emotionalist sort of argument. Rapes happen. Wo/men can choose to report these to the authorities or not. Based on these reports, it's often the case that the authorities themselves...

The rich can already buy immunity to most crimes because they can afford the best legal representation. It doesn't matter whether you force women to press charges--which you can't do, since unless a woman presses charges or gets a rape kit done in the first place, how will the authorities know a...

R Kelly had a good case, though.

Really? In stat rape cases usually charges need not be formally "pressed" by the victim his/herself, but can be pressed by the state or the parents on behalf of the victim. Statuatory rape charges are actually sexist though in more ways than one, wildly so, and I think they need some serious...

This is just excellent, it says so much with so few words: Christians/religious believers just like words. They think words are special and mystical. They don't really worship a being in the sky, they worship words (Christians in particular even call their god "logos", which literally...

Every time I've ever tried to cheat on a paper using the internet, the stuff available was so bad that I ended up working three times harder than I would've if I'd just done the reading in the first place. I suppose if you don't know any better though...

This kind of thing. I've lost two weeks of my life to NADH, ATP and the citric acid cycle and I'm just starting to get it. Shoot me now.

they're friends It's really weird I just saw this one a couple of days ago, and I'm pretty sure youtube linked me to it through a Zomby clip I was watching...

I like having (a) lab partner(s), but other than that group work is just awful. Exams make sense in the maths/sciences, because otherwise you'd never be able to keep pace with the sheer volume of information you need to learn and be able to build upon cumulatively. In any other subject, exams...

From an anthropology textbook From "Gender, Property, and the State" in Gender in X-Cultural Perspective Really worth reading...lots of good stuff on north Indian dowry wife burnings, throwing widows on their dead husband's funeral pyres (alive), lots of interesting stuff in that chapter...

I hate that, thanks to the media and the internet, people are subjected to all kinds of medical information that they don't know how to properly interpret...this is why doctors freak out about the anti-vacc brigade. It's extremely rare to get hepatitis from tamiflu, and I'd suspect that in...

Technically, influenza of any type can kill you if you have a compromised immune system from asthma. This is the reason my doctor has been giving me for why he wants me to get a flu shot every year anyway. I'm getting the swine flu vaccine for $18 through my school in a couple of weeks. I'm...

And just so you know, the reason all of the information about brain damage and aggression online will tend to be close to a decade old is because that hypothesis has mostly been picked apart at this point. Sure, global, traumatic brain injury can drastically change a person's personality. But...

But Poetix, you just called all men baddies! How dare you? Grizzle, next time you might want to read the studies you post before you post them. Here are the "conclusions" from the pubmed study you posted: That's an important part of the study, you know. The results.

That article is pretty lame, I'm sorry. It posits an even vaguer notion of "Capital" in place of a widely observed anthropological FACT called patriarchy. And it doesn't "marry" with anything you've said; it directly contradicts a lot of it, actually. You STILL can't get what the meaning of a...

Why don't you try google? "patriarchy" "anthropology" Try google books even. You'll find plenty.

No it isn't. There are many factors that 'determine' our behavior, biology being only one---but a powerfully, extremely significant one. One that we can't escape, no matter how hard we try. One that, even if we modify it, we can never entirely circumvent. It's no more "deterministic" to say...

Anyway, nobody said that because testosterone is implicated in violent crime that criminals have "no control" over their actions. You're making quite a leap there.

Yes it does hold sway. Biology is always with us, Grizzle, whether you like it or not. I know that is not a fashionable thing to say. I know it's not going to win me any friends in the lit crit theeree community. And I don't particularly care.