[africanboy]

Let's talk about numbers:

- In 2019, the rate of forcible rapes in the United States stood at 29.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. it has decreased from 1990, when there were 41.2 forcible rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.

- In 2014, rape rate for Japan was 1 cases per 100,000 population. Rape rate of Japan fell gradually from 1.6 cases per 100,000 population in 2005 to 1 cases per 100,000 population in 2014

What lesson can we learn from this in your opinion?

[pieter_mj]

I'll offer an answer which will not satifty you nor solosoyokaze. But first, you should understand that long before these events, RMS already had a proven track record on inclusiveness, gender equality and anything his opponents have him accused of.

So what lesson can we learn? that some sexual encounters in Japan that should be considered rape, aren't.

[africanboy]

> So what lesson can we learn? that some sexual encounters in Japan that should be considered rape, aren't.

That could be true.

But 30 times less is hard to explain with that.

Remember that he majority of rapes are perpetrated against adult women and Japan is the country with the oldest population in the World, right before Italy.

I guess that living in a society where crime rates are generally low (Japan has one of the lowest rate in the World) helps a lot.

In Japan half of the people are not having sex, that makes it one of the countries with the lowest rate, hardly a country of rapers.

So what lesson can we learn?

That violence is key to injustice

The whole discussion about diversity and inclusivity in the States revolves around self segregation and punishment for those who do not abide, it is based on fear of the consequences not on a general understanding that conflict is an integral part of the society and inclusivity means to accept it, not to remove it.

Stallman is a non violent man, he doesn't adhere to the American standards, he's a weirdo, but never harmed anybody nor committed violent acts, let alone crimes.

I write an email to his address from time to time, have been doing it for the past 10 years, and I always receive the most polite replies (days later of course, he reads them offline).

Sometimes it's like talking to Sherlock Holmes, he's very logical, has strong opinions, lingers on the most miniscule detail and that can be unpleasant to some.

He can be confrontational, but not dangerous.

I would rather share the proverbial desert island with him than with those who attack him for not being "standard compliant"

I know I shouldn't have to feel frightened by him.

Maybe we could learn a thing or two from him, once we go past the preposterous social indignation à la carte because he likes to walk barefoot.

p.s. In Sweden age of consent is 15 years and sexual assault (so not rape specifically) reports are very high, but under the Swedish laws half of the planet would be in prison (in Sweden not using a condom is considered rape).

Eurostat figures show that Sweden had 64 reported rapes per 100,000 residents in 2016, compared to 10 in Germany. When Sweden's figures were recalculated using the German definitions, the new figure was 15 reported rapes per 100,000 residents.

p.p.s. if in Japan they are "hiding" the real rape numbers, what makes you think the same thing is not happening elsewhere?

USA laws about rape are not stronger than those in Germany, that has a third of the rapes of US and where age of consent is 14.

What's the difference then?

In Germany violent crimes in general are a lot less than in USA.