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Atheists & Agnostics

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts) Sat Dec 20, 2014, 01:18 PM Dec 2014

I can understand how people can convince themselves to believe all manner of absurd things. [View all]

But how some seem to be able to convince themselves that the non-consensual impregnation of a woman is not rape is beyond my comprehension.

The lengths they will go, the contorting they will perform, the rationalizing....What. The. Fuck?

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I can understand how people can convince themselves to believe all manner of absurd things. [View all] cleanhippie Dec 2014 OP

Are we talking about Mary, or something else here? n/t Silent3 Dec 2014 #1

The fact that under any other circumstance, all these people would agree that this was rape. cleanhippie Dec 2014 #2

I dont think it's case closed. Cartoonist Dec 2014 #3