Reply #46: In the real world...

[TPaine7]

23. in your world

an armed robber in a commercial establishment commonly takes time out from making a getaway with the loot to sexually assault a victim.

In the real world, the stated purpose of a guy with a weapon to your throat is neither limiting or definitive.

I'm glad I don't live there.

Me too, if you mean the US. You're welcome to join us if you mean reality outside the Field.

Not because I prefer such things not to happen, but because I dread to think what other weird shit must go on there.

This must be pertinent in some other conversation, I'm sure.

Oh, did you have any facts to support your implied assertion that such things happen -- to any extent that might make them a reasonable expectation?

There are no implied assertions in my post, only real assertions. (At least there aren't in the real world.) I said precisely what I intended to, with no insinuations or implied points whatsoever.

The woman was in a situation that threatened her personal security and appears to have acted reasonably to avert the threat. Somehow, I suspect that her fear for her life, and not her fear of sexual assault, was uppermost in her mind. (Of course, we have no way of knowing whether her life was in jeopardy; a lot of armed robbers do just rob and leave, y'know.)

Sometimes I feel bad for you, in spite of myself. The Field has shown you no mercy.

The woman was in a situation that threatened her personal security... (Of course, we have no way of knowing whether her life was in jeopardy; a lot of armed robbers do just rob and leave, y'know.)

Think about that, iverglas! Are you too far gone to see the tension?

We have no way of knowing whether she would have been killed or injured. The fact that a robber threatened her life tells us that her life was threatened--in jeopardy.