Response to: BuzzFeed Article title

  I'm really going to keep this one short.
  And DISCLAIMER: I am most probably about to offend a good portion of you all.

  I was just on Facebook, scrolling my life away, when I came across a BuzzFeed article that someone shared. It was titled 'A Third Of Male Students In A New Study Say They'd Rape Women If There Were No Consequences'.
  And, just like many others, when I read that, I was like 'Woah, woah, woah...WHAT?!'
  However, before I even clicked on the link to read the article, I sat there for a moment and thought.
  And I realized: Ohkay. This statement really isn't surprising, and it honestly doesn't prove or disprove anything, in my opinion.
  Let me elaborate a bit.
  We cannot pretend like the only place where humans are morally-flawed lies within sexual assault scenarios. Beyond that, this idea of 'no consequences' could be applied to any situation, and probably would earn similar, if not higher statistics.
  For example: If you could take all of the money from the vault of a bank "if nobody would ever know and there wouldn't be any consequences" (using the words from the study), would you do it?
  Some of you may think, 'Oh, no, never; that's other people's money, and that's wrong'. But, rest assured, some of you are probably like, 'HELL YEAH I WOULD'.
  Here's a more relevant example: If you could buy/sell/ingest marijuana under the same circumstances as above, would you do it?
  In some states, it's the consequences and social stigmas that bar many from engaging in activities with marijuana. But in places like Colorado and Oregon, we can clearly see how the stripping of consequences for recreational use of weed has increased the desire and willingness for residents and visitors alike to light one up without a second thought.

  In a sense, I get what the study was trying to do with that particular statistic: bring awareness to men's disregard for the safety, choice and well-being of women, mainly surrounding sex. However, if you as me, the 'no consequences' scenarios shouldn't be used to single out men as horrible immoral creatures. It's more of a human flaw, because if you give a person the option to do something, and tell them that there would be no consequences for it, many would do it, even if it was morally wrong.

  Let me be clear, though: I didn't read the study. And I don't know about the other aspects of it. Hence, I'm not at the liberty to comment on that. My comments are solely geared towards the particular statistic I talked about, and the way that the particular BuzzFeed article presented it.
(You can read it here.)

Thanks for reading.