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Originally Posted by chase
While I admit it is an extreme example...this sounds to me like people claiming a woman deserved to get raped because she was walking down the street alone, at night, and in a short skirt....because she put herself in that situation. And even though it may be wrong for the rapist to take advantage of her doing so, she should have known that was going to happen and she should accept it because she put herself in that situation.
And that, my friend, is a very disturbing attitude.
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You are right in your example, however you are tying to compare apples and oranges.
If a woman dresses in whatever way she wants and walks anywhere she wants, she should not be raped because it is against the law (against the law because its a disgusting thing to do), period.
If somebody post on a message board then, HELLO, they are going to get responces and not all of them will be positive. It is their right to post whatever they want and to live however they want, just as it is the responder's right to respond in whatever way they feel is right.
What I find to be a more disturbing attitude is the fact that people seem to think that the speech of those who disagree with Sarah's actions should be censored simply because they do not agree with them, and that attitude seems to be the more widely accepted one.
Nobody here is right or wrong, but they all have a right to their opinions on the matter, it is not rape we are talking about.