Death by Torture: everybody's doing it, man. (Score 2)

I certainly would choose to be raped rather than to be tortured to death. Of course rape can sometimes include torturing to death, but most rapes aren't so seirous cases. I don't want to belittle rapes, but some cases just aren't as severe than some other cases.

Granted, torture is certainly a frightening concept, and a genuinely lousy way to die, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that rape is a tad more common than torture-to-the-death, neh? I don't remember seeing any statistics along the lines of "1 in 10 women are violently tortured to death." Arguing that rape is a "less violent crime" misses the point entirely. Rape happens, commonly, to a lot of people.