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To: Born in a Rage
ER.... um.... hmmm Let's say...

You get really friendly one day and you meet someone and open your wallet and you say here start taking money out. At the beginning that's what you want to give them the money. Then after you realize that you hadn't paid rent you say... , Well I must be going and you are still holding open your wallet. At what point of this process is this persons manners supposed to kick in? I think if you snap the wallet shut and push them away and say you have enough stop and you start to walk away. Yes if it continues after that I agree. But I do not think you can say "gee he kept the motion of reaching for my money in my wallet after I told him I should go." And then use the period of time after it was over to negate you willing participation of giving them the money to begin with. Does this makes sense? Or am I off here? You thoughts?
100 posted on 01/06/2003 8:41:00 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: Walkingfeather
ER.... um.... hmmm Let's say... You get really friendly one day and you meet someone and open your wallet and you say here start taking money out. At the beginning that's what you want to give them the money. Then after you realize that you hadn't paid rent you say... , Well I must be going and you are still holding open your wallet. At what point of this process is this persons manners supposed to kick in? I think if you snap the wallet shut and push them away and say you have enough stop and you start to walk away. Yes if it continues after that I agree. But I do not think you can say "gee he kept the motion of reaching for my money in my wallet after I told him I should go." And then use the period of time after it was over to negate you willing participation of giving them the money to begin with. Does this makes sense? Or am I off here? You thoughts?

Walkingfeather I get what you are trying to say but when a rape is occurring it is more akin to someone opening their wallet and letting the person have some money and then the person taking the money, well he starts getting crazy, his eyes bulge out and the generous person starts fearing the person taking the money may have a gun in their pocket - the generous person figures maybe they can talk themselves out of the situation without the person who is taking the money going more nutso - they figure that if they just scream and run with the wallet that the crazy man might do more than 'just' take their money, so they try to 'reason' with him first....can you imagine this type of situation? Have you ever run across someone strange and try to back away from them slowly because you feared any sudden moves might make them worse?

199 posted on 01/07/2003 11:18:22 PM PST by Born in a Rage
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