17 Jan '06 16:28>
Originally posted by lucifershammerYou know, the Israelites could have just not committed genocide, and the whole issue of letting the women "choose" between two different nightmares would have been non-existent.
Once again, you're applying a modern Western understanding of "rape" and "force".
Why would women willingly follow the murderers of their fathers, brothers and mothers? Presumably because they didn't want to starve. And presumably because they didn't want to be sitting ducks for the next tribe that comes along (and this time they really would be r ...[text shortened]... straints of society, civilisation and technology at the time, it wasn't a monstrous one.