Bill said:Econ, not only do you lack credibility you have also now shown the absence of any morals or class.
If as you say "It is about someone holding something over your head so they can get away with a wrong." That is called blackmail.......... not incest............. and most certainly not rape. Your comments are uncalled for and demeaning not only to Tam and BMR but to everyone else with a shred of decency who frequents this site.
As I said before you need some serious professional help.
In every one of the cases I cited, Bill, there was some sort of blackmail being held over someone's head. I am sorry you focused in on the sexual part. That is your problem, not mine. I think the incest example is one where I least understand the conclusions people come to when trapped in these moral delimas. The other night there was a Frontline show on girls from russia who were promised better lives and jobs in the west only to be turned into prostitutes after they were psycologically abused. There was a real system in how it was done.
I ask myself how slavery and even the civil rights abuses of just 40 years ago could have happened. In every case, there is a loss of control, a loss of dignity, and usually a very large event that showed what the "new reality" is that has to be accepted by those being abused.
I know what happened in Canada during the BSE fiasco. It was one such event. What I want to know is do you even recognize it as such? Most people who are prostitutes do not just choose that job. There is a system that gets them into it. Same with every other thing that impends on our freedoms to do what is right. I think the people I blame the most are the people who set up the systems that allow these evils to happen. When I encounter these people I have two questions. 1) Did they recognize what was happening and 2) Did they help it happen to further their own interests. The next question that I have is did they do ANYTHING to stop it when they saw the abuses or did they just turn the other way because they were too busy with their own problems or whatever the reason may be.
"Rape" or "incest" happens on many different levels. The lady who thought she was poisoned by the poultry companies with one of those "superbugs" was raped in real life. She told me what she has been going through with the poultry company was as bad or worse than the rape she went through in real life. Rape happens on many different levels. It isn't always just sexual. In fact, the biggest part is not sexual at all.