Lox, et al:

For about the third time I am not in ANY respect implying that the victim of a rape is responsible for the action of the rapist.

It is, however, a fact that she is responsible for being where she is. You keep shifting this around to some complicated transfer of blame. It is NOT. It is simply a fact.

There are unique decisions that both the rapist and the rape victim make, a long chain of them, that result in their intersection under the circumstances of the event.

If you cannot break out of the "responsibility as blame" channel of thought, what I am saying will not make sense. Accountability is only blame in the hands of petty minded authoritarians.

I have no disagreement with your attribution of blame for an act of rape. No contributing factors stand with any weight in contrast to the overriding action of the perpetrator.


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