Anger In Rape Cases

Martha Nussbaum discuss that anger can led to payback or retribution; however, she has two problems. I will address one problem. One problem is that payback or revenge makes no sense; it inflicts pain on the offender since it does not remove the victim’s injury (15). Revenge cannot bring a murdered person back to live or undo rape or severe injury. It becomes permanent. To me, someone who suffers rape, violence, or other negative emotion develops into experience. People cannot escape it; even when they get old, they remember the injustice they suffered when they lost their virginity during the sexual assault or imagine how gangs shot and killed their relatives. In movies, people get angry in order to say to the offender that they get them back
When I think of human anger, I see anger as a way of “expressing negative emotions” towards the offender. What it does is that people who cannot control their emotions shows hostility against their friends or family. One example of showing hostility is when they want to solve the problem without addressing all facts. As a result, they will attack the offender first, then receive the facts last. Let’s look at an example. A rape case sometimes refers to a situation where the woman (let’s call her Jane) came at the wrong time where the offender waited to sexually assault or rape Jane. Other instances could be that Jane may have decided to become a prostitute or that the man suffered mental illness. Without addressing these options carefully, people can have false judgment about a certain people, seeking revenge through violence. This is similar to the topic of police brutality. We develop a perspective of life based on the background, environment, or experiences we have during our time on Earth. From an African American’s perspective, they see that the police killed the man due to his skin color; he did nothing wrong to the officer, but the officer killed him anyway. From a police officer’s perspective, they see it as an individual who broke the law, resisting arrest. These two perspective differ each other; if we listen to one story and ignore the other story, it becomes an injustice because we refuse to listen to the other witnesses of the situation in order to fix the problem. Therefore, human anger address their own opinion about the situation without stating the facts; however, spiritual anger focuses on the facts to do what is