is a person responsible if they knowingly put themselves in danger if they get hurt?

Question

if a person is responsible if they knowingly put themselves in danger if they get hurt. Is a girl responsible if she knowingly puts herself in sexual danger and is raped say

Answer 1

OK... now your question is a bit different.

Instead of thinking about rape when I read this on the list, I thought of Crocodile Hunter. He always knew he was in danger, so he was responsible. However, the sting ray just accidentally happened to be there at the time.

So... he really didn't have any way to prevent that, other than just not being there at the time.

That's like a driver who goes through a yellow light. Somebody turns left and runs right into the side of his car. He is found 10% at fault, just for being there, but he had no way of knowing that other driver would be stupid enough to run into him.

A girl who puts herself into danger by going home with strange men all the time is responsible for her messed up life. But she is only about 10% at fault, if she misjudges some guy and he turns out to be a rapist.

Rape is about violence, not sexuality.


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Answer 2

Responsible how?

Most life insurance policies have "excluded" activities, including sky diving, piloting an airplane, bungee jumping, going into war. The policy won't pay if you die from an excluded activity. Refer to the policy.

As for the girl being responsible, never. Used to be this way, but not anymore. Remember Mike Tyson's stint in prison? The girl was flirting, drinking and carrying on in the hotel bar, she then went to his room and alledgedly raped. I personally thought she held some responsibility for this, as what woman in her right mind would think an animal such as Tyson, would be a gentleman? And, I would think if you are going to a guy's hotel room at 3 in the morning drunk, you have a reasonable expectation that sex will occur. The court said she was innocent and had the right to say no, making Mr. Tyson a convicted rapist.

Answer 3

Well I was going to answer this as I was expecting the question to be about dangerous sports for example. But I am not quite sure what you mean by 'sexual danger', if you mean wearing provocative clothes ie short skirts etc - I would say no you are not responsible. However, if you are cavorting in rough bar rooms then I would say yes, you are bringing about situations which you should be avoiding.

Answer 4

its troubling to hear such a question...we all have freewill to flirt and tease, we all know the causes of certain effects....but we also have the free will to control ourselves, its when we go beyond the limits allowed by the society we grow up in, that we use our freewill to freely hurt others, is whats responsible....its the person who is raping the other and hurting intentionally for his or her own self gratification that is the responsible one.

if you were hurt and that's why you are asking...my heart goes out to you...take it as a life lesson, and learn to heal yourself over time, there's nothing more damaging to the soul than living in the situation forever.

if you are asking this question to defend yourself against a rape charge or to justify your acts or even planning to do to something like that....lower your head in shame for you have done a terrible act.

Answer 5

If there is ice on the sidewalk and you walk and slip on it, are you or the person who fails to scoop the sidewalk responsible for the fall? Did you know you were going to fall? Did you think you could just walk over it carfully and not slip and fall. Or was someone watching you and felt a need to run over there and push you down claiming you had it comeing for standing on ice? You knew better than to walk on ice, but you thought if your carful you wouldn't slip, someone see's you and believes you should fall, who is the more evil or ignorant person. Someone walking on the ice, or the person who thinks no one should walk on ice and instead of talking them into walking else where they push people and make them fall? Your logic looks flawed, keep in mind this little tid bit on ice is just a metaphor for situations deemed socially taboo.

Answer 6

If she says no, it's rape. But, a guy would have a good case if she led him on to the point of no return. For instance, if I dressed up provocatively, met a guy at a bar, flirted and teased, asked him back to my place, had a few drinks, had most of my clothes off, had him seriously expecting something to happen, then told him no, and it still happened anyway, I wouldn't bother reporting it to the police.

Answer 7

Not the same thing as body injury, this event takes 2 people to cause injury. Rape is a crime committed by one to another
so the answer is NO

Answer 8

yes and no. she's responsible to herself for putting herself in that situation where something that could've happened and did. and no because she had no control over what happened. anything can happen anyhwere at anytime. but we knowingly have to put ourselves out there in order to live!

Answer 9

Partialy.She is at fault for putting herself in that position and the rapist is guilty of commiting the rape.

Answer 10

well in the case of rape no, because no one should do something when you say no, I dont care what anybody says there is never a case where say just because of the way someone looks at you or dresses that they should be raped, No means NO