JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:50 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:41 am
Hmm. Whilst I am sure the incidences of these things are much higher than any of us would like, I doubt it's anywhere near those numbers based upon
what a reasonable person would classify as rape or sexual assault. What is a disgrace is the lack of willingness to prosecute and lack of success of prosecution of offenders by the police and the "justice" system.
I think you're very wrong there. There's a huge amount of evidence that what you would consider rape and sexual assault matches those figures.
I don't want to get into a sh*tfight over this because I think broadly we are on the same side of this headline topic. However, I take issue with those types of statistics on a number of levels:
1) They simply defy credibility. Put it this way, if correct, you lot have one helluva sick society in the UK. Think about it: in any of your own family gatherings (a wedding, say), which of them are abusing their children? Because, statistically it would have to be many of them. I don't think the defence of "it's all them other wierdos that's at it" works.
2) For me, this is exaggerated, alarmist nonsense and, in a complete irony, is identical in every way to the alarmist right wing cr*p you and I are rubbishing in this topic: just that it's pervaded by the left! Somewhere I read that the UK poverty measure included lack of access to mobile phones, the internet and satellite TV. Give me a break. It reminds me of the brilliant and now banned Brass Eye's episode of Paedogeddon .
3) And the trouble with this type of exaggeration is that it is counter productive in that it undermines the seriousness of genuine cases.