<p>I am no fan of rapists. If I posted here what I believe should be done to them, I’d be banned. Believe me, it is long, painful, and terminal. :mad:</p>
<p>However, far too many times it has come to pass that the allegation of “rape” was less than factual. Was this one of them? Who knows? None of us were there.</p>
<p>What does stand, however, is that neither of these Mids behaved in a manner even remotely close to what USNA standards are supposed to be. Accusations were hurled and found to be false. Others could be neither proven nor disproven. Still others stood on their own merit without need for an argument.</p>
<p>I use the word “victim” only when it applies. Was this woman the victim of a rape? Not according to the court. Sure, that doesn’t establish whether it ACTUALLY did or ACTUALLY didn’t happen, but we’ve got to go by the law, here. Let’s fail on the side of caution: If we assume the rape ACTUALLY happened, then she is a victim of rape. That doesn’t exonerate her from her failure to show good judgement in that she got so drunk out of her mind that she blacked out. Is that illegal? No, but it doesn’t give her a blank check, either.</p>
<p>So, as USNA 69 wrote, we have a situation now where two people are guilty of the same thing but are being treated differently. Where is the justice in that?</p>
<p>Personal responsibility cannot be tossed away just because one was drunk.</p>