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Innocent? Careless != guilty.

• cookiecaper 15y ago
  Right, but it's bad taste to equate a short skirt with letting someone you've never met live in your house completely unattended for a week. Most people have the sense to understand that that is a dangerous idea. I don't endorse either ransacking or rape, and I recognize that there was a crime that was committed here and that the victim is still a victim. But I think comparing that to comments that a woman "deserved" to be raped because of her attire is over the line and insensitive to rape victims.
  • chalst 15y ago
    The linked-to OP did not talk of deserving to be raped. You have inverted her point.
  • praptak 15y ago
    I only criticized your choice of words: "I don't think someone that leaves their house [...] is quite as _innocent_ [...]" implies that this somehow makes them guilty. I believe that both the homeowner and the figurative rape victim are equally innocent.
• biot 15y ago
  The word innocent also refers to childlike innocence, or an innocent mistake just as "loss of innocence" doesn't mean "becoming guilty" (at least not in a legal sense).