"This would then perhaps change our perception of the roles. That was what I was after with my question, and whether that would change the way we assess the gir

"This would then perhaps change our perception of the roles. That was what I was after with my question, and whether that would change the way we assess the girl's actions. ... Other than that, I've been basically asked "why bother about hypotheticals", so it seems that not a lot of people find such a thought experiment as interesting as I do." We all have filters (of varying weight and severity) set up in place to check veracity of the facts streaming into our heads. I don't think we've all "made up our minds", but I'd rather not devote much more effort and headspace to this until any new news comes in. The problem isn't that people necessarily take presented facts as reality, myself, I consciously go through your process for every article I read. I suppose I'm downplaying your posting it here because I find outward discussion of a situation with limited but fairly striking facts from fairly trustworthy sources (multiple court records). All is possible to be skewed, but I don't have the energy to call up the "attacker" and the "victim" and perform independent research in the matter. Does that make sense?