I fully agree with you. Never disputed what you just said.
Let me clarify what I meant and why I said the punishment for rape should not be stricter than murder.
If rape is punished equally or even more severely as murder, it will be a disaster. Rapists will murder the victims after raping them, if murder is made the smaller crime.
At least today they leave the victim alive since the sentence is 'only' 7 years. That way, at least the victim gets a second chance at life. If they make it just as 'bad' as murder, all those rapists will turn murderers. That way, inflicting the victim of double punishment, and denying them a second chance.
I know we're all very emotional about this. But let us not allow our emotions supersede logic.
The minimum punishment for a rapist in India is 20 years.
And that logic dosen't hold.
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