I might add that Dr. Sonnet Ehler of South Africa who invented the Rape-Axe device no doubt has the best of intentions....

I'm not opposed to her efforts. I don't particularly object to the basic idea. I don't mind if they market the devices to women who want to use them to deter rape.

Fine with me.

But it doesn't strike me as a very good solution to the problem of reducing the incidence of rape and associated violence in South Africa. It seems a bit naive to me to imagine that such a device will alter the situation significantly or that it won't further endanger some of the women who would choose to employ the device.

So I was suggesting some other ways of possibly reducing the number of rapes that are occurring in that society by attacking not the potential rapist himself....but the huge social problems that exist all around the potential rapist.

That would mean looking at the big picture, and the big picture is far more complicated, isn't it? And I guess that's why people would rather just focus on the one specific thing they are upset about at the moment...the crime. They can grasp that so easily...and they can come up with an instantaneous emotional response to it. Cave man stuff. Anyone can master it in an instant. Why not just send Rambo over there, and he can kill all the rapists in South Africa...one - by - one. It would take a hell of a long time to kill them all, of course, and there would always be new ones coming along for him to kill, which would make it a sort of endless job....but JUST THINK of the emotional satisfaction we'll all get (sitting in our comfy armchairs here) as he blows them away!

Ooow-weee! Great idea for a movie, eh?   Why can't we just solve all our social problems this way?