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Voted : They want to inflict this punishment on their enemy
Nothing is more psychologically scarring, for a man, than looking into the eyes of a rape victim. It's still control and power, larry, but done at distance. Now, any man in that area pauses to consider going off to war, if he has female family members to leave behind.
Voted : They were always rapists, waiting for the opportunity.
This situation makes it oh-so-much easier to get away with it.
by mojo on Mon Jan 28, 08 5:47am
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This is a very good question. There are several theories (which I won't go into) that attempt to explain this. Most seem to have some element of truth in them but none completely explains why it occurs in my opinion. War often brings out the worst elements of a persons character (and sometimes the best). Some people while normally good law abiding people seem to get pushed over the edge by the stress of the war. Some simply want to win the war and get it over with. Others, unable to control their anger and other emotions want to destroy everything around them and beat everyone (the enemy) into utter submission. Whatever they can do to humiliate and destroy people, they do. Its a very complex question. Why does genocide occur? Why do massacres like My Lai (Vietnam) happen? Or even why do people gather around and cheer when people fight? And then cheer louder if someone is knocked out? Obviously, not everyone participates in atrocities like rape. Why? How are they different from those who do? They might even be in the same unit.
Voted : war brings out the animal instinct
How exotic.
I seriously think it's about control, men feel powerless so they turn on the one thing they can overpower. This happened in Ethopia..apparently, after a civil war, the men turned on the women
by aya on Mon Jan 28, 08 10:51am
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Voted : war brings out the animal instinct
we're not fallen angels; we're mammals
At this very moment in the Congo females are young as 5 and as old as 74 are being gang raped in front of their village. It effects the entire village because everyone wishes they could do something to stop it but they're helpless. It's a power and control thing / a way of inflicting punishment on their enemy.
Items 3 and 4 are the most common reasons offered by theorists.
I think what MOST, of you said may be the reasons , some are as mojo stated, also for some, a way to inflict punishment and terrorize the enemy.
Voted : It depends
It depends. Some wars have only the usual number of criminals in any large number of people, unless bad attitudes bring out the worst, as in Kosovo and the Japanese during World War II.
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