I've thought about this at length, and the conclusion I came to is that violence about self-sufficiency, while sex is about cooperation. With violence, you take matters into your own hands and you're in control regardless of what others feel. With sex, it's the exact opposite. You're at their mercy and they have power over you.
It makes sense in our hostile culture to teach kids about self-sufficiency and taking power for themselves. If they give that power up to others, then it opens them up to manipulation and exploitation.
I'm not making a judgement call on what's right or wrong, only what is.
Also don't forget that since the Citizen's United supreme court decision, oligarchs are able to funnel as much money into election campaigns as possible.
It's not even democracy when people votes can be bought.
Every rich person deserves a painful death. Let's start with the billionaires and work our way down.
I hope some heroes torture these oligarchs to death so they can at least experience a fraction of the pain and suffering they're causing billions of others.
Since people in developing nations don't have access to the information that we do, they're unaware of the cultural battles that we are fighting.
It's a lot easier to get in on "ground zero" and convince people that your side is correct if they don't know that there are any sides at all in the beginning.
It's telling that this is happening to gay people. It'll be a long while before their culture starts to accept trans people, if they ever do.
Copyright and patent laws need to die.