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Originally Posted by houston
Usually the first thing people say when they are blaming someone is "I am not blaming..."
"she shouldn't have put herself in that position" also casts blame on the victim.
Prax is NOT smarter than a 5th grader.
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If you have children, I'm sure you have used those very words to show them they were somehow responsible for something bad happening to them, even though what happened to them was the other person's fault.
"If you hadn't left your bike in the front yard last night, someone wouldn't have stolen it."
"I told you that if you let the dog out, he was going to get run over."
Personally, I feel that if someone is going to put themselves in a position of being unable to care for themselves in a potentially dangerous situation or if they put themselves in a dangerous situation, they are somewhat responsible for what happens to them. It may not be a legal one, but it's an ethical or moral one.
For instance, if you are drunk and driving and someone blows a red light and you hit them, YOU will be the one responsible because, even though the other guy was wrong, you MIGHT have been able to prevent a tragedy had you not been drunk.
IMO, if someone is drunk and taken advantage of, regardless whether male or female, they are somewhat responsible since they might have been able to prevent it had they not been intoxicated. Maybe you have never been drunk before but I have, and I'm sure someone could have laid me on the railroad tracks and I wouldn't have cared, even if I saw a train coming.
I know there are all types of rape situations, but when a woman is drunk she is somehow not responsible for what happens to her but when a man is drunk, he doesn't get to use that excuse. Can't have it both ways.