Tanoomba, how do you not get that we've been saying all along that consent can be invalid if the person is incapacitated enough?
How do I know?
This is how I know.
All of the cases you're finding support our position. The case you just found is a doctor who used some injectable anesthetic on a woman in order to have sex with her. You really using that to equate with chicks getting willfully drunk at a party? Really?
Yes, really. It's the same law that has been broken. A person was too whacked out on drugs to know what was going on and somebody took advantage of that person. It makes no legal difference whether said drugs were taken of one's own volition or not.
Rational decision implies some kind of correctness to your logic - your decision was objectively rational, etc. And applying that rationality to the decision means basically that "the person was making correct decisions" which probably means they were mostly sober, although people can be irrational stone sober. Under your standard, any time someone is acting out of the ordinary, they'd be unable to consent. Under the actual standard, reasonable judgment, the person just has to be exercising some judgment regarding their situation. They could be totally whacked out, and decide for themselves that yes, having group sex with these 4 guys is perfectly reasonable. Ok. But they did consider the situation, and they did use their judgment. The intoxication has to more or less prevent them from resisting, and the standard used says that preventing resistance means that they weren't able to exercise reasonable judgment as to the consent.
These are the words of a desperate man grasping at straws. Everybody knew damn well what I meant when I said "incapable of making rational decisions" and you know it.
Do you not understand why I keep saying you're wrong?
Of course I do. Because you're terrified of a world where a man could be charged with rape after getting a "Yes" from a really drunk girl, almost as much as you're terrified of the idea of a feminist "beta" being right about something. It's the same mentality exercised by the majority of posters on this thread (none of whom had issue with "incapable of making rational decisions", by the way). It's arguing for chest-beating rights, like every other argument I ended up being right about.
You apply the wrong standards to the wrong situations, then you jump to conclusions and make blanket statements about situations that the standards do not apply to. You apply things that only kinda-sorta work for a completely different area of law and then apply them to criminal law as if there's a lot of overlap. You read cases and interpret them incorrectly, and make blanket and far-reaching statements that are incorrect and way past the scope of the case.
I did none of that shit. I refer you again to
here, where I could not have made my case clearer again and again and again.
Then you come at me and try to say I'm a terrible lawyer when I've been schooling you on the law this whole fucking thread? You're a joke dude. Nothing but a bad troll. You're lucky this is in screenshots, trolling is pretty much standard in here.
I apologize. You're not a terrible lawyer. You're not a lawyer at all. A lawyer would know that a person is sometimes not capable of giving legal consent, even if they can give actual consent. A lawyer would not deny said fact until legal definitions, prosecutor guides, AND case law forced him to acquiesce. A lawyer would know how prosecutors go about proving whether or not someone was capable of giving legal consent instead of blurting "How would you prove that? What would you do?" (see linked post). A lawyer wouldn't make statements like "If she even remembers what happened, she wasn't too drunk to consent" that simply are not necessarily true. A lawyer would have taken issue with the semantics of "capable of making rational decisions" the first time it was uttered instead of insisting nothing short of unconsciousness or inability to speak is a prerequisite for rape to occur. A lawyer would understand the difference between "something you would only do when drunk/stoned" and "something you would only do when you're so fucked you don't know what's going on". A lawyer would have known about penal code 261(a)(3) without needing someone else to find it for him.
Now, maybe you're a fine importer of farm equipment or retail manager of a high-end shoe store. I have no way of knowing. But there's no way you're a lawyer, dude. The gig is up. If anything, this is a great relief, since the idea of a lawyer practicing with this level of incompetence is very unnerving. Fuck, this thread alone could probably get you disbarred. Luckily, your carpet-steaming business (or whatever) is safe.