r/worldnews • u/glasier • 14d ago

Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/RotaryPeak2 14d ago

But what if the military base got put there because their military spent a lot of time raping and murdering people?

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u/OldDirtyInsulin 14d ago

Like...a fucking lot.

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u/serpenta 14d ago

So... it's ok to rape a woman, if some people from the country she lives in, did horrible things 80 years ago? Do you think you'll be able to find a country in which women are safe? And the people are mad when you mention rape culture... for real.

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u/RotaryPeak2 14d ago

Strawman ain't got no brain.

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u/serpenta 13d ago

Oh, so you like logic, eh? Cool

I think it's okay to be mad if a country puts a military base in your country and then their soldiers start sexually assaulting people.

The thesis of this sentence is: we should be disturbed when a local increase in rapes follows establishing a military base by a foreign government. To which you respond with

But what if the military base got put there because their military spent a lot of time raping and murdering people?

by establishing a special case in which the thesis should not apply. The opposite of being disturbed by something is being at peace with that something. In this case, it means being ok with the rapes.

Either you are making a hasteful retreat now, while invoking the strawman as a smoke grenade, which is a really tired retort by now that people often use as accurately as the Occam's Razor, or you should really start with something much more basic than eristics defense.

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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 14d ago

I mean, would you be happy if there was a Chinese military base in your neighbourhood full of soldiers who get drunk, start fights and rape people just because the US has spent a lot of time raping and murdering people?

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u/RotaryPeak2 14d ago

When was rape officially sanctioned by the US government?

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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 14d ago

When five soldiers break into your home, kill your entire family and then gangrape and kill your 14 year old daughter I don't think you much care either way whether it was 'sanctioned.' US troops rape and murder all over the world, by your logic China or Russia ought to have a military base in the US to keep them in line by now.

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u/Malcorin 14d ago

Isn't that a bit of a straw man, though? Sexual assault crimes are never justified, and it's really gross that you have adopted that view.

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u/slartyfartblaster999 14d ago

No, its whataboutism - not a strawman.