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I see your points about personal responsibility. Perhaps he should have done more to defend himself, but still i think for the most part when people are pledging its a different mindset than normal. You might be willing to do things you normally wouldnt do and when things spiral out of control it would be harder to protest than from the beginning, but i still feel the most responsibilities lies with the actives. As for peer pressure as a defense, its true it is a poor one, but for the victim? Alone with 2 other pledges against 13 guys, perhaps they should have said no, but if these guys left him unconscious on the floor for half an hour what would have happened had they said no? I can hardly see how the situation would have ended better.
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