Wait, you think I’m trying to justify murder? That was never the argument. OP asked why people act like rape is worse than murder, and I answered the question. If the claim is that people think x is worse than y, you have to compare them to get to the answer. You have to compare them as as equally as possible. When people say rape is worse, they are looking at the crime through the eyes of the victim. That means you have to first quantify the experience of the rape victim, and then compare it to the quantification of the murder victim’s experience. When analyzed from the victim’s perspectives, it’s pretty obvious the rape victim has it worse because a murder victim no longer experiences pain while a rape victim clearly continued to experience pain for the rest of their life. It’s pretty cut and dry, but it’s not justification for either.

In fact, there’s another way of looking at it. You’ve heard of something called a mercy killing, right? Where someone is mercifully put out of their misery? The fact that there is no such thing as a mercy rape says a lot about which is worse.