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Q for those who believe adulters must be executed: What about cases of rape?

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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

(Note: I do not believe in having the death penalty for adultery but I am curious to people's thought paths on this)
 

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Adultery is not the same as extra-marital sex. Rape victims have not committed adultery because they did not choose the sex, therefore they would not have broken the law.

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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

(Note: I do not believe in having the death penalty for adultery but I am curious to people's thought paths on this)

I suppose I would have a trial where all sides could present evidence.
 
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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

(Note: I do not believe in having the death penalty for adultery but I am curious to people's thought paths on this)
I have seen on the news that in a Muslim country, a rape victim was charged with adultery and that rape was not seen as a defence for her.
 
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Adultery is not the same as extra-marital sex. Rape victims have not committed adultery because they did not choose the sex, therefore they would not have broken the law.

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Curiousity and a liking of hypothetical questions.
 
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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

(Note: I do not believe in having the death penalty for adultery but I am curious to people's thought paths on this)
Rape victims aren't guilty of adultery.
 
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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

(Note: I do not believe in having the death penalty for adultery but I am curious to people's thought paths on this)
Just follow bible. Biblical speaking being raped gives woman opportunity to be purchased.

Deuteronomy:
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver.
 
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I have seen on the news that in a Muslim country, a rape victim was charged with adultery and that rape was not seen as a defence for her.
There is an idea that rape is the victims fault for various reasons, that even civilised nations whisper behind the victims back.
 
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Say a government had a policy of the death penalty for adultery, which is the case in some countries. How would you prevent rape victims from being wrongfully put to death?

By putting right people to be judges. :)

Not all ware good for that job, but people who are set to be judges, by God, can be righteous and give right judgments.
 
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Just follow bible. Biblical speaking being raped gives woman opportunity to be purchased.

Deuteronomy:
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver.
"Just following the Bible" requires more knowledge, understanding, and discernment than what you quoted. This is a command God gave when women were considered property.

The rest of verse 29 that you quoted:

he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. (Deuteronomy 22:29, 1984 NIV)

For that marriage to happen the man would still have to accept accountability to the community of Jews. What is the difference in application for a man still accepts accountability to the community vs. when he does not?

There is also the passage that precedes those verses which shows us something of God's nature, when the woman is betrothed (which is not like a modern engagement in the West).

If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you. But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her. (Deuteronomy 22:23-27, 1984 NIV)
 
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