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[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's wild that some countries doesn't consider it rape unless violence is used. Fucked up world.

[-] charliespider@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Right... Like: "it's not a bank robbery if you don't use a gun!"

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Robbery does require violence though.

[-] hersh@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

This probably depends on jurisdiction. I also suspect "violence" in a legal sense is different from the everyday sense. I'm not a lawyer.

From the US FBI's web site:

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines robbery as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yes I did gloss over the "threat of violence" part and just included it in general as "violence".

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

So two of these things aren't violence. One is threats and one is making people afraid.

Which are two of the scenarios that the protestors say the rape laws should be made to cover.

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