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

[andrewducker]

-Her friends say she was drunk and incapable and they asked Rúairi Dougal to walk her home.
-Rúairi Dougal says he had sex with her in the corridor outside her room.
-She says she doesn't remember anything about it, but is certain (reasonably enough) that she'd never have wanted sex in the corridor with her own bed a few steps away.
-That she doesn't remember anything is backed up, presumably, by the testimony of the counsellor she went to.

This all adds up, absolutely to "Having sex with someone in a corridoor, which you'd never do when sober, and then not remembering it in the morning."

Which isn't a crime.

It _may_ also have involved rape, but those statements there don't make it so.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

"Having sex with someone in a corridoor,
which you'd never do when sober, and then not remembering it in the
morning."

So, again, you're arguing that the testimony of the man accused of rape - the only evidence that she was conscious and consenting - is sufficient by itself to clear him?