Poll: Rape vs Murder, a different perspective.

[Raven's Nest]

I would just run at them bellowing an almighty war cry. The chances are they'll probably run away, even if they didn't, it'd still serve as a distraction giving the means for the victim to get away.

Not sure why but i'd probably risk my life for anyone as long as my death wasn't meaningless. I'd consider it a good death. I must have a hero complex or something lol.

EDIT:

I would say rape could be worse for an athiest. Because once your dead you really wouldn't know or care about it.

For everyone else, murder is unquestionably worse.

 

[ace_of_something]

I think this tells you[a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.78482?page=2#980485] How I would re-act.[/a]

 

[faceless chick]

Sorry, I voted for the last one, because:
a) murder IS FAR WORSE than rape. trauma and diseases notwithstanding, you cna make it out much better out of a rape than out of a knife wound to your stomach.

b)because i'm sure i'd get overpowered by the killer, so i would die in vain and not have achieved anything. i'd try to call the police, i guess, or someone in the neighbourhood, but otherwise, there's really nothing i could do that wouldn't get me killed completely unheroically and again, there's point a)

if he leaves her unharmed afterwards, it's not that bad.

though this poll confirmed my theory that americans really consider rape to be worse than murder, which is a baffling specific cultural phenomenon to me.

 

[Kasawd]

The criminal is distracted. If I can't reach the police before finding something nice and blunt I would proceed to find such an object and make an attempt to strike the fellow on the back of the head, hopefully knocking said fellow out. Then hog-tie him.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I'm not going to lie. I'm a massive coward. I would call the police, but then I don't know what I would do.

I would probably freeze up, feeling to much guilt to run away, and at the same time feeling to cowardly to help the victim. In the end, I would probably just walk away. But if I'm feeling somewhat courageous, I might yell at the rapist or throw something at them and then run away screaming. Assuming it's a long alley and he won't be able to catch me easily.

I still don't understand how rape is worse than murder.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Call the cop, and try to try to stop him. Yes, I said try to try, but not everyone can be a brave hero. And even though I see rape as worse than murder, I'd rather have her raped than dead in that context.

I could yell at him so he'd notice me. Then I'd get a good look at his face, and then he either runs away or towards me. In the latter case, I'll just run to nearest place with other people.

 

[Axeli]

Well, rapist usually tend to flee if interrupted, let alone if you infrom them that you just called the cops.

Who ever said that rape is worse? Rape inconveniences you for a while and introduces psychological problems... murder introduces you to not being anymore.
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Which isn't an inconvenience at all, seeing how you won't care once you are dead. The common misconception of not existing being inherently bad thing, for yourself... It's just, well, not existing.

It's like complaining about not having water when you can't be thirsty.

 

[Daveman]

murder is worse, but I wouldn't just run in, I'd fetch help... I suppose some rape would occur in that time... depends really

I think I'd shout at them from a distance and then they'd probly leg it if they're just holding a knife... or they might come after me in which case the victim might be able to get away, I doubt they'd just continue...

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Call the cops, grab any hard or sharp object, sneak close and annihilate the rapist.

Edit: Wait, that would be another traumatic event for the rapist's victim!
Damnit.

 

[Adam]

I don't think ive got the balls to stop someone doing something like that. Im a complete coward when it comes to being threatened because I can barely defend myself, im not very fit and I know no martial arts. I would probably slip away and let the person be raped, all the while feeling like absolute shit and being depressed for a very long time.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Call the police, grow a pair of testicles, find an improvised weapon (not that hard in today's polluted cities, especially not in an alleyway) and start beating the assailant. I doubt I could ever live with myself if I wouldn't do anything.

 

[Doug]

Call the police, find a nearby blunt/sharp object and run at 'im. If I got fatally wounded then the police would already be on their way. I honestly couldn't live with myself if I kept on walking and left that person to be raped and maybe killed.

This, I'd hope; And if your loud/sudden enough, the rapist might be spooked enough to run off. Of course, whether I could actually be that brave in really...

 

[Doug]

Call the cops, grab any hard or sharp object, sneak close and annihilate the rapist.

Edit: Wait, that would be another traumatic event for the rapist's victim!
Damnit.

Actually, it'd be the same traumatic event, but I'd imagine she would be able to recover abit easier from that than from the rape; and if not, at least the rapist wouldn't be able to rape anyone else, and so the net effect would be fewer women traumatized.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Call the cops, grab any hard or sharp object, sneak close and annihilate the rapist.

Edit: Wait, that would be another traumatic event for the rapist's victim!
Damnit.

Actually, it'd be the same traumatic event, but I'd imagine she would be able to recover abit easier from that than from the rape; and if not, at least the rapist wouldn't be able to rape anyone else, and so the net effect would be fewer women traumatized.

Watching someone get horribly mutilated is (I think) at least as shocking as getting raped.
And of course, I'm just kidding with the annihilation.
But I'd still try to help her flee.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

"Oi! Fuckwad! The cops are on the way, so I'd run if I were you."


Stand there until he either flees, or comes at me. If he comes at me, I run. I won't go down that alley unless I have a weapon. If I did, I'd sneak up behind him and fucking brain him or slit his throat. Without mercy.

Leave her there, sadly, because I'm not going to prison, but only if she wasn't obviously hurt.

 

[Ryuk2]

I would find something to defend my self. I wouldn't risk my life. I'd just take something to hit him with, run at him while screaming and if that fails i would hit him with it, if that fails - RUN RUN RUN! I would be a hero, because if he saw someone running at him, he would at least let the women go to defend himself or run. So the girl would run away.
p.s rapists = pussies

 

[Axeli]

Call the cops, grab any hard or sharp object, sneak close and annihilate the rapist.

Edit: Wait, that would be another traumatic event for the rapist's victim!
Damnit.

Actually, it'd be the same traumatic event, but I'd imagine she would be able to recover abit easier from that than from the rape; and if not, at least the rapist wouldn't be able to rape anyone else, and so the net effect would be fewer women traumatized.

Watching someone get horribly mutilated is (I think) at least as shocking as getting raped.
And of course, I'm just kidding with the annihilation.
But I'd still try to help her flee.

I honestly doubt it. There's much more fucked up with rape just because the humilation alone, that it doesn't really compare to seeing the rapist being very violently subdued. Might be another story if compared to seeing someone innocent (in comparison) who you might know or care about being brutalized to death.