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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I disagree.
The failure here is that there was a group of men who decided to commit sexual assault (allegedly). Educational messaging should tell at least one of those in the group to intervene and stop things before it became a criminal act. In my mind, this is abhorrent not because a single individual decided to rape someone, but because a group of men engaged in the act and not one of them said "hey, maybe this is a bad idea."
Messaging is not only about personal responsibility, but intervening when you see something wrong. More education WILL reduce things like this. The solitary predators may never go away, but if everyone is watching out for this #### wherever they are, those predators will lose opportunities to commit these crimes.
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Well put.
I should also like to add that education does seem to have in fact worked over time. The statistic that one in three women will experience sexual assault in her lifetime is tragically high, but it is still much, MUCH better than it has been for the vast majority of human history in most cultures, where that number is much closer to three in three women. It wasn't so long ago that it was not considered a crime for a man to force his wife to have sexual intercourse.