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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Genuine question: Why is it that when someone subject to social pressures goes along with fraud, commits an act of violence or participates in some other crime they are judged as individually responsible, but when someone subject to social pressure gets involved in sexual activity they are considered a victim?
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It's not really one or the other. Someone can be individually responsible and a victim of peer or environmental pressure at the same time. Again, I'm less likely to think that way if someone is in their mid-20s but we know that teenagers are extra susceptible to peer pressure.