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The ongoing rape debates - my take.
Dec. 5th, 2005 09:29 amMy basic principle is that this is an imperfect world or, to put it colloquially, shit happens. This has two corollaries:
1: Shit happens. You are responsible for taking precautions to avoid the shit and minimise the impact of it.
2: A lot of the shit that happens is the results of evil scumbags who deliberately produce and throw the stuff. People who deliberately generate shit are wholely and completely to blame for the shit they generate. There is no contradiction between this and point 1.
No exceptions even in the case of rape. Oh, and those well-meaning people who seek to deny the responsibility claim that they are seeking to reduce the damage done to individual rape victims. At the cost of increasing the actual number of victims if people don't take responsibility for some degree of protection. (And of increasing the number of victims in other fields).
1: Shit happens. You are responsible for taking precautions to avoid the shit and minimise the impact of it.
2: A lot of the shit that happens is the results of evil scumbags who deliberately produce and throw the stuff. People who deliberately generate shit are wholely and completely to blame for the shit they generate. There is no contradiction between this and point 1.
No exceptions even in the case of rape. Oh, and those well-meaning people who seek to deny the responsibility claim that they are seeking to reduce the damage done to individual rape victims. At the cost of increasing the actual number of victims if people don't take responsibility for some degree of protection. (And of increasing the number of victims in other fields).
