(July 11, 2010 at 4:24 pm)In This Mind Wrote: Except this isn't true. It is not true that 'not taking risks' will lead to less instances of rape.I never argued such a thing. What I argued (and what you have consistently ignored) is that the instances of rape *within the subset of women who don't take risks* will be lower. This should be quite obvious, since rapists don't tend to attack girls who are in large groups, or who are in cabs. Will the number of rapes be lower? Probably not, since the rapist will attack other girls, but the girls who didn't take the risks have a lower chance of being raped.
Quote:A serial rapist in my hometown was a cab driver. Another was a cop....and you realize that those are specific cases and do not apply generally? That is to say, the majority of cab drivers and cops are *not* rapists. The risk of getting raped by a cab driver is much lower than the risk of walking home alone, for the obvious reasons.
Quote:Most women are raped by someone they know, either a friend or an acquaintance.And had you been reading this thread properly, you'd realize that our arguments were only addressing the people who get raped by someone they don't know, in the situations where girls are walking home, or in a dangerous situation. What we are saying, is that in those cases, had a girl acted differently (i.e. cab home, walking with friends) she would have a lower chance of getting raped.