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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]quote: If someone first teepeed your home, then walked through your front door and raped you, would you say it's a fair characterization for me to describe those events as someone committing "mischief and worse"? Reply: the rewording of serious crimes such as rape as "mischief and worse" minimizes the offense. The connotation of that phrasing discounts "worse" because it's too vague compared to the lighter charge of "mischief." It would get an "F" in my class. [/quote] I totally agree. One of the violent crimes described in this article happened to a woman on the block on which my family and I live. If that had been me instead of her, there's no way I'd think "mischief and worse" would be an accurate, non-offensive characterization. [/quote]
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