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In reply to the discussion: Professor Bans Student for Rape Views [View all]Monk06
(7,675 posts)position is based on a fallacy.
Not much of a professor of humanities if he hasn't read Aristotle's, Sophistical Refutations.
Individual choice does not negate cultural influences that effect those choices.
If I murder someone I may do it for pleasure, financial gain, revenge or any number of other reasons based on how I was raised and in what culture I was raised. My culpability may very widely depending on my culture's relative tolerance or intolerance for murder and homicide generally.
My seeming acting out of pure will is an illusion. Ever disappointment, and act of violence against me is linked in an unbroken chain of experience that led to my committing murder.
The only culture that could be said with certain not to be a rape culture is one where rape has never occurred or is scandalously rare.
So his argument is specious. All the question begging 'research' and biases disguised as 'facts' do not change the demonstrable fact that the form of his argument is a fallacy and hence, illegitimate.