06-08-2016, 04:54 PM
(06-08-2016, 01:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If a girl steps over a rail at the Grand Canyon and someone pushes her over the edge is the victim to blame for her fall?
Did a lack of common sense contribute to the fall? Would the fall have been as likely if the person had stayed behind the rail....pushed or not? Forget a woman being raped, and put it in the context of a man being robbed and assaulted. Like I said, if I woke up in a hospital bed after passing out to find out I was robbed and beaten, I would consider myself a victim. But I would also be mad at myself for being stupid enough to get so drunk I was not able to defend myself. I would feel that if I had not done so, the event would've been far less likely to have occurred. I would not have expected to be beaten and robbed, but I darn sure knew something bad could happen to me if I put myself in that compromised position.