"Every individual sooner or later must take complete responsibility for who and where they are and every choice that brought them there. That includes a lass who gets raped,... etc"

Am sorry Amos but I must disagree. The responsibility for being raped has to sit with the rapist.

Not to forget either that many peope are raped every day of their lives in brothels where they are kept prisoner after being taken abroad as sex slaves. What of the women raped by armies? Is it their fault they are in a war zone?

So I'm afraid your argument is fallascious in as much that not everyone has a free choice to happen to be where they are. So many victims are also victims of circumstances way outside any responsibility or control they may have over or within their lives and situation.

I am sure that these kind of victims missed your thoughts when you wrote what you have for I know you as one who is usually thoughful about what you do write.

mp