Amos,

No I didn't.

The tone of my posts to you are not remotely accusatory.

I have taken issue with erroneous and irrelevant use of the word "responsibility"



"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."


I have never said you were.


I am saying that this is a meaningless observation to make in the context of this thread, as this thread is about asking "is the victim partially to blame in some cases."

ie does the victim bear some responsibilty for the rape occurring.


The answer is that no she doesn't.


To clarify, - her actions, for which you rightly state she was responsible, were not responsible for the rape happpening - ie they did not cause the rape.


In the sense that you describe, every rape victim is responsible for being raped, and every murder victim is responsible for being murdered.


This represents plain and simple misuse and misunderstanding of the word.

Do you understand my point?