Quote:Now, what part of any of those statements says anything contradictory to what we've been saying about you? You have clearly announced that the blame lies partially with the victim.
To answer this question would take an excessive amount of work on my part due to the high number of misinterpretations. This is why I have let most of them slip by uncommented on.
Perhaps, instead of going into all that, I could once more try to explain the root of the confusion:
1) I have not yet mentioned any opinions on rape. Everything I have said so far has been about my definition of the word responsibility.
2) my definition of responsibility is something of an equation that represents a combination of which people contributed, could have contributed, and should have contributed
3) the value of responsibility is not necessarily linked to deserve or sympathy. therefore, if i consider a rape victim to have 0.1% responsibility and the rapist to have 99.9% responsibility, that does not mean that i think the person deserved it 0.1%, nor does it mean that they will only get 99.9% of my sympathy.
4) an event is specified by the facts, and events are categorized into groups such as a "rape" event. the fact that the event is considered "rape" is simply linguistic and has no meaning whatsoever. many people would not even agree on where the boundaries of this linguistic word lie. the only thing that matters are the facts of the event, and thus I find it extremely foolish to say that "all rapes have exactly the same responsibility distriution, and should have the same punishment and sympathy distributions."
5) I am not a rapist, I don't condone rape, but I have experienced negative effects of it so you can stop making me the rapist or saying things like "if you had been raped, you would think differently."
People just say it like it's a bad thing. 