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'If rape were decriminalized, women would behave differently.'

This comment is sociopathic. Go on down the slippery slope - if crime were decriminalized, its vicims would behave differently. If murder were decriminalized, its victims would behave differently. The victim is at fault, and you're the Uday-wannabe who gets to have your way with other human beings. This is a subhuman mentality that accounts for so much sick, inhuman behavior in today's sad world, it's hard to put into words. It's an indescribable insensitivity toward human life. I hope you didn't truly intend to be this cold. It's very disturbing to see this mentality in this forum.

VERY FEW women would go to hotel rooms of men they don't know, and to make a statement that places all women in this idiotic category, and then makes them all fair game for such violent, destructive behavior (happily decriminalized for you, in the event this was really a rape) is unconscionable.

This Kobe/teenybopper episode seems to be bringing out the predator in a lot of comments here. I generally enjoy the intelligent bantering I find out here, but when it descends into this kind of evidently revenge-ridden baggage-laden vitriol, I feel very disillusioned. I expect better from you GUYS. I enjoy you guys. But this - I just hope I don't see too much more of this out here. Maybe we can get back to issues that don't descend into caveman club-waving, huh?

My apologies. I've been holding back since my initial post because I thought it would just inflame things, but you are obviously upset, so I thought I'd reply.

I absolutely do not want to decriminalize rape. It was a poorly chosen rhetorical advice and I apologize for it.

I would like men and women to behave in more responsible ways. I would like men to be gentlemen. I would like women to be ladies. I would like anti-social, violent criminals punished.

I think Kobe and his accuser are both in very sad situations right now. AFAIK the whole thing could have been prevented if either of the two had behaved in a more decorous manner. That's really all I want to say, except -- my apologies, once again, for offending you.