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A disturbing university sexual assault trial (details deliberately left vague) is redefining how we view predators and victims.

Andrew Urquhart is joined by podcaster Brendan Malone to discuss the gender-based groupthink now shaping public reactions to cases of crime and immorality. The LifeNet director posits that rather than asking "What is true?", society has split into tribal camps, echoing decades of campus tolerance —and promotion— of hedonistic behaviour among students, while pretending private character doesn't affect public life.

The Christian anthropologist unpacks how a libertarian "consent-only" ethic fails because it assumes a level playing field between men and women while ignoring the power imbalance created by drugs and alcohol. He points out that true consent only makes sense within a Christian sexual ethic that upholds human dignity; whereas stripping out morality under the pretense of bodily autonomy has bankrupted Western culture, which is still in denial about the catastrophic effects of the sexual revolution, much like the failed Soviet experiment ([lifenet.org.nz](https://lifenet.org.nz)).

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