Do you lock the doors on your car and/or home?

[dmallind]

89. Having finally worked out what you are trying to do, it still makes no sense

Several reasons:

1) there is no simple push button mechanism that makes it much harder for someone to rape you and much easier to claim insurance if they do. If there were, it would also make sense to universally use it.

2) locking doors does not imply thinking all passers by are potential thieves, just implies that thieves exist and why should we make it easy? (see 1)

3) taking simple precautions against getting wet, like carrying an umbrella or wearing a hat when it's cloudy, is not akin to building an elaborate shelter in the case of a meteor strike. One is an equivalent reaction to a common event, the other an overreaction to rare events. Larceny rate per 100k is 1967. Burglary 762. Car theft 228. Rape 26

4) all (well most - there are exceptions due to disability etc) men ARE potential rapists, in the same way that all humans ARE potential thieves. Potentiality is not probability. I have the potential to become 500lbs. It's not all that likely I will (300 however...). There are both sensible and ludicrous ways to dealing with that risk. Analogs in the first case would be locking your doors and not getting drunk alone with rowdy frat boys in their house. No you shouldn't be a victim of theft just because you leave your doors unlocked (and usually aren't) and you shouldn't be raped if you are drunk alone with rowdy frat boys (no way to get stats here but we can be fairly confident it is certainly not a universal result of doing so), but these are easy sensible steps to reduce the risk that's all. However you can also overreact, like refusing to leave your house without triple steel bar locks, a guard dog, an alarm system and tripwires, or treating every male in every situation as if he's one random testosterone spike away from raping and pillaging all and sundry.