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What exactly are you expecting to happen?  You want to be able to stumble bum around black out drunk whenever/wherever you please with the GUARANTEE that nothing bad will happen to you?  Ha.  Dream on.  [/quote]

Not the PP, but I think the desirable situation would be that if you are stumbling around drunk and someone attacks you, more blame is placed on the attacker than on you.  I learned defensive driving in drivers ed.  That has been useful on the road when someone is clearly swerving and/or speeding recklessly.  If they hit me, though, the reaction is not likely to be, "Did you remember to drive defensively?" as opposed to, "Why was that person driving 115mph and changing lanes?"[/quote]

It's not BLAME. It's preparing ourselves for the future. You hear about that terrible accident and tell your kids "don't drive recklessly AND do drive defensively." You even might say "there are angry drivers out there, just be cool so you don't trigger road rage." [/quote]

But if your kid WAS hit by an angry driver and lying in the hospital paralyzed from the waist down would you say, "Well, you really should have been driving defensively. What did you do to make the driver so angry, anyway?"

NO. So why is it okay to do that for rape?[/quote]

We aren't talking to the victim here. We are preparing our children and ourselves for the world. 
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So because you want to pretend if you teach enough lessons stuff like this can't happen to your kids, you will withhold empathy from a person to whom it did happen.[/quote]

Huh? I hope it doesn't happen, but I don't think it can't happen. Is it really so wrong to try to minimize risk? And this is just one semi-controllable situation. Some violence happens beyond any control.

And why do you assume I don't have sympathy for Emily? I can't feel bad for her AND want to try to prevent this from happening to myself and my kids, at least the best we can. 
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It is crazy that people do not want to put things in place to make college campus's safer. It's like safety belts, we know there are bad drivers everywhere, so we need to protect ourselves.

Men rape... we need to put things in place that protect us from rapists.

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