That's a new angle, yet a reason to why we have so high suicide rates besides the dark months.. Nahh, I kinda doubt most people makes such conclusions.<div><br></div><div><div>I found a interesting article that compares the laws in more detail then I did in The Washington Post:</div>
<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121002571.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121002571.html</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>You may want to run a few articles through Google Translate to try to understand the debate in Sweden:</div><div><a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kulturdebatt/dags-att-prata-om-det">http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kulturdebatt/dags-att-prata-om-det</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/mer/kulturdebatt/vi-forlorar-pa-att-inte-tala_5816933.svd">http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/mer/kulturdebatt/vi-forlorar-pa-att-inte-tala_5816933.svd</a></div><div><br></div><div>I conclude it as the law is interpreted like if one of the parties thinks it was sexual assault / rape, it may go to court as word against word. It is assumed that the victim is a woman since she is from a traditional point of view weaker then the man and therefore more exposed to crimes. Therefore, she has a higher chance of getting the man convicted. It also read that false accusations have been prosecuted, but without mentioning the lack of resources to investigate such false accusations why I am inclined to think that falsely accused people of such crimes have a hard time trying to prove there possible innocent considering the proof burden is so low.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Nicolas</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> get convicted of rape and if you meet a girl who is drunk, has even a slight<br>
mental issue such as depression etc, you are in big shit because she could<br>
is not in a state to say no.<br>
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</div>Wonderful -- so if you're depressed because nobody wants you, then<br>
anyone who wasn't going to reject you for seeming sad will reject you<br>
out of fear of prosecution.<br>
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