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Originally Posted by embee
Maybe I still hang on to some archaic concept of personal responsibility, but I recognise there's a real world out there and no-one ever said it was fair..........
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Tricky one. I left my garage unlocked whilst on holiday once. Very very stupid on my part. Certainly negligent. Had it of been robbed, I'd still want the thief to be prosecuted the same as if they'd cropped the lock. At the same time, I'd not expect to receive as much payout from the insurer, if any. So, I suppose my POV is that the victim's foolishness shouldn't effect the custodial sentence being given out, but in terms of compensation recieved, perhaps.
On the (understandably touchy) subject of rape, if someone is heavily drunk- we're not talking one or two drinks chatty here- they are much less able to put up any sort of resistance. It in no way excuses the perpetrator of the offence, but I can imagine that there are a lot of people who would never rape someone 'by force' with the person kicking or screaming, yet at the same time would certainly consider 'taking advantage' of someone who was more than a bit worse for wear and probably not even think of this as 'rape' as such. I'm not talking passed out unconcious on the floor, but you know the sort of drunk- hardly able to talk, not coherent, still standing but swaying about, can't remember much the next day. Being like this doesn't make the victim responsible for it, but the sad truth is that it could often have been avoided had they been sober in the first place.