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I don't feel good when I do good things. In fact, my thoughts and emotions tend to make me feel like I'm guilty, or shamed, and I have to convince myself that what I'm doing is good (unlike others, where they apparently feel all accomplished when they do good things?) So, please, don't project that happiness-chasing philosophy onto me. You say mine is a more long-term goal, but I would say you are mistaking fulfillment with happiness. A woman may be able to have a life-affirming REACTION to the rape, but rape as an action is life-negating.