re political atheists keith cco caltech edu keith allan schneider writes mathew mathew mantis co uk writes as for rape surely there the burden of guilt is solely on the rapist not so if you are thrown into a cage with a tiger and get mauled do you blame the tiger as far as i know tigers are not sentient if i were pushed into a pool with some dolphins and they attacked me i might be inclined to blame the dolphins rather than the person doing the pushing as a dolphins are not usually aggressive and b they seem to have well developed brains and a capacity for abstract thought as a matter of fact tigers rarely attack humans unless the human provokes them of course if they are in a cage which is far too small that might count as provocation mathew
