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"Whether Rittenhouse made a poor decision by venturing into a riot isn’t the question at hand. It is whether that decision forfeits his right to defend himself against a rioting mob.

If he does not have that right – because he put himself there, because he asked for it – was looking for it, as rape defendants used to claim about their victims – then a woman doesn’t have the right to complain when she is attacked after having gone into a seedy bar, say. Or the wrong part of town – wearing the wrong kinds of clothes.

It’s nonsense, of course – in both cases."