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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
TBH this is why I think the rhetoric does need to shift away from "You might get raped!" to reminding young people that if they get themselves that level of drunk, and don't sensibly stay in groups looking out for each other, absolutely anything could end up happening to them. A whole array of awful things. Sexual assault being one of them but not even the most common. Plenty of them don't even involve other people at all... everyone in the world could be gentle, nice, helpful sorts who would never harm a fly and people would STILL be at risk with reckless drinking habits. Haven't there been at least three or four fairly high profile incidents quite recently of young people falling into rivers drunk and washing up dead?
The idea that "it should be fine to do whatever you want because no one should be out to hurt you" is misguided for those reasons... as well as simply being sadly unrealistic. The VAST majority of people you encounter - even the "dodgy seeming" ones that people tend to be wary of - are actually not out to hurt anyone... but there are a small number who are. And there always will be. There is no way to tackle it. It's not a matter of education. These attacks don't happen because the perpetrator "wasn't aware that what they were doing was wrong" - the idea is insane - the perpetrators simply, in that moment, do not care.
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agreed , sadly its another insane form of political correctness / feminism that has simply wiped out common sense and basic communication