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<p>What I mean is that all too often people decide, “Well, she was raped”, so that somehow gives the victim a blank check on having been drunk, or hanging out with the wrong crowd, or whatever.</p>
<p>Does that mean she “asked” for the rape? Of course not. However, you can’t just gloss over her actions, either. If you want to call that “having some moral responsibility”, it’ll suit me because it’s accurate.</p>
<p>In this case, this Midshipman drank so much that she blacked out. I don’t care what was done to her afterwards, she is still guilty of an appalling lack of judgement and should be called on it. There were several infractions committed in this case, and no one should be treated better than anyone else because they were a victim of some other infraction.</p>
<p>Just because I was driving drunk when another drunk driver crossed the median and hit me head-on, severing both my legs at the hip, doesn’t give me the right to whine about being a victim and to get a pass on MY drinking and driving.</p>
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<p>Absolutely right. However, you can see that the “victim” is still the “victm” of something that was found not to have happened, and for which she was therefore partially responsible. Won’t stop some from saying that she deserves a pass, though.</p>