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

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

However, in all cases, _totally_ responsible for making the decision to place themselves there.

You're assuming that people have unrestricted freedom of motion -- and that's not always the case.

You're also conspicuously leaving out examples like "A woman goes over to her best friend's house for dinner. How responsible is she when he rapes her?" I don't know if you're leaving out those very common situations because you want to make a point about people going into situations they know are potentially dangerous as opposed to situations they have very little reason to think will prove harmful.

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry for dropping in -- saw this linked and thought it was in a comm I'm in.

[andrewducker]

Oh, agreed.

But as I've said below, I wasn't equating responsibility with blame, and I really wasn't saying that people deserved any of the horrible things that happened to them.