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- From: albert@hpl.hp.com (Joseph Albert)
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:26:37 GMT
- References: <C1BpFC.A35@cs.mcgill.ca> <012593110444dude@losers.hacktic.nl> <1993Jan26.104822.15402@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.104822.15402@news.cs.indiana.edu> "amy lynn young-leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
-
- >Let's clarify here... Do you agree or disagree with the following:
- >
- >Having sex with someone who consents is not rape.
- >Having sex with someone who consents and has been drinking is not
- >rape.
- >Forcing someone who has not been drinking to have sex is rape.
- >Forcing someone who has been drinking to have sex is rape.
- >Having sex with someone who is unconscious is rape.
-
- so far, we're in agreement.
-
- >A woman, when drinking, renders herself totally incapacitated in the
- >eyes of the law and has no capacity to make decisions that she should
- >then be held responsible for.
-
- ah, now we disagree. and, fortunately, the eyes of the law disagree
- with you as well. the legal definitions rape are so stringent, that
- what happens in the legal system is that actual rapists are acquitted
- in droves. this is the price we pay to have stringent laws that don't
- convict innocent people.
-
- Joseph Albert
- albert@hplabs.hp.com
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