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

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Othen than that I would replace 'require another human being to do something bad' with 'provide an opportunity for another human being ...' I'm pretty much in agreement. I'm seeing a confusion in my LJ FL between 'being responsible for' and 'increasing the risks of'. And I think that confusion is reflected in the Amnesty poll - that at least a proportion of the people who said that they believed women to be partially responsible for being raped if they behaved in certain ways actually meant that they were increasing their risk of being raped.