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The Latin phrase "Aequitas Equitas" covers a great deal of ground. As someone has highlighted, society creates and enforces laws to see to these ideals. Laws should not be created or imposed by capricious decisions but with consensus and deliberation.
Rape hurts people, physically, emotionally and psychologically. Rapists are violent people who hurt other and, upon conviction, they belong in prison, not for 2 years or for 20, but for good. Society is certainly responsible for protecting individuals. Standards (laws) are created for this purpose.
We all have a responsibility to improve the law. 
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