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Comment Re:Parenting philosophy (Score 1) 451

Rapes happen. But there are almost always mitigating circumstances. Victim is at a wild party. Victim is drunk, with strangers. Victim is alone and in an isolated/vulnerable location. Victim is involved with unusual sexual activity, or has provoked an obviously aggressive party. Et cetera. Rare is the rape that's truly random.

Ouch. I know one can put oneself in risky circumstances, and that one should try to avoid them. But you wrote "mitigating circumstances". As in "a fact or situation which reduces culpability for an offence and permits greater leniency in judgment or punishment" (Oxford Engish Dictionary). I hope you don't mean to imply that raping a drunk stranger "at a wild party" is less serious than, say, raping a sober nun at sunday school.

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