prideandfall
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i wouldn't think so - that statement suggests that a lack of impulse control regarding one specific set of emotions means a lack of control over all actions.You would think that a rapist would be more likely to engage in fraud, robbery, theft, assaults and so on. Especially, what his cowardly ass thinks he can get away with.
if someone has a poorly developed restraint over their sexual urges which causes those impulses to bypass their social conditioning and thus leads them to sexually assault someone, that doesn't mean that they necessarily will also be unable to stop themselves from taking a shit on the sneeze guard of the salad bar at Wendy's.
humans are only as 'moral' as the ratio of impulse strength to socially conditioned resistance to impulses allows them to be. some people are stronger on one side of that ratio and some people are stronger on the other.
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