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What George Hook said wasn't so bad after all, was it?

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  • #102
    splinter65
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    kylith wrote: »
    Thank you for clarifying :D


    But you're saying that if someone gets drunk they have to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, so if they are raped that would have to imply that they have to take responsibility for getting raped (as if being raped is a reasonable consequence for having a few beers).

    Anyway, could you answer the question? If someone isn't drunk and gets raped by a date or someone they met in a pub/club do they still have to take responsibility?

    No, they have to accept that as a result of them getting bladdered to the point where there desicion making was impaired, they put themselves in a position where they became prey for a predator.
    The rapist is responsible for the rape, obviously.
    If you are sober and you are an adult and you leave a club, or a shop, or anywhere else willingly with a man who is a total stranger who has asked you to get into his car and/or come back to his house/hotel whatever, then your family and friends need to do something to help you because this behavior would show that something is very worrying.
    If your daughter told you off a morning that she had got chatting to some man in the bus queue and he had asked her to go back to his flat within minutes and she had happily agreed, would you not be worried about her mental state?
    Once again, if you are raped, irregardless of how the rape cane about, it is the rapist who is to blame.
    Edited to add:
    Your point about rape being a consequence of “having a few beers”
    If you are so drunk after “a few beers” that you have lost the ability to look after yourself then is it not reasonable to suggest that you just don’t drink the “few beers”?
    If after a “few beers” you are inclined to do things like, say, jump in front of moving vehicles “for a laugh” then if you end up in hospital with a skull fracture is it also ok to lay all the responsibility on the vehicle operator , because , obviously I should be allowed to get ratarsed and run in front of cars, it’s up to the driver to precipitate my actions and take precautions?


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