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Topic: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

http://www.slate.com/id/2152487/

"The bottom line on these experiments is, "More Net access, less rape." A 10 percent increase in Net access yields about a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes. States that adopted the Internet quickly saw the biggest declines. And, according to Clemson professor Todd Kendall, the effects remain even after you control for all of the obvious confounding variables, such as alcohol consumption, police presence, poverty and unemployment rates, population density, and so forth."

"Next, violence. What happens when a particularly violent movie is released? Answer: Violent crime rates fall. Instantly. Here again, we have a lot of natural experiments: The number of violent movie releases changes a lot from week to week. One weekend, 12 million people watch Hannibal, and another weekend, 12 million watch Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

University of California professors Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna compared what happens on those weekends. The bottom line: More violence on the screen means less violence in the streets. Probably that's because violent criminals prefer violent movies, and as long as they're at the movies, they're not out causing mischief. They'd rather see Hannibal than rob you, but they'd rather rob you than sit through Wallace & Gromit."


No surprise for me, I've been therapeutically using videogames since the days of DOOM.

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Apparently the French govt decided internet access is a basic human right

So 404 errors are war crimes?

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Another way to lower rape rates is to legalize prostitution. The opportunity to have sex should be a human right too!

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Didn

The inmates are running the asylum

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

> esa wrote:

> Didn

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Another way to limit rapes is to booby trap vaginas

tweehonderd graden, dat is waarom ze me mr. fahrenheit noemen, ik reis aan de snelheid van het licht, ik ga een supersonische man van u maken

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Which would lead to the confusing headline of "Rapist victim of Bouncing Betty. "

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got your betty ready?

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
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> So 404 errors are war crimes?

lol

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This is not new....

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

so pr0n actually reduces rape.

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

Who wouldn't prefer robbing someone over sitting through Wallace & Gromit?

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

> EmperorHez wrote:

> so pr0n actually reduces rape.


I think it's more that you find on the internet someone who will consent to letting you boink them in whatever sick fetish way you rule 34ed last week. tongue

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Re: How the Web Prevents Rape [and Violence in General]

That and most sexual deviations are caused by repressed sexuality and frustration. You'd be amazed at how many mental issues can be eased with a good hard [].

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