Responsibility

[andrewducker]

This is inspired by the comment here, where ladysysiphus says "If you have consumed enough alcohol to impair your judgement, I believe you then have to take at least some responsibility for putting yourself in a position where something like this might happen."

[Poll #619684]

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

If the default state of any woman is assumed to be consent, the prosecution has to prove a negative, and any man is free to rape any woman because all he has to do is claim "she consented" and that is, apparently, by itself enough to introduce the "reasonable doubt" that she might have.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, other than in the cases where there are presumptions about consent.