Dr. Phil should really do a segment about this. His recent controversy is a textbook example, I think.
Of course it's not okay if a person is drunk to the point where consent prior to sex is suspect. So why is Dr. Phil talking about it on Twitter? Faced with the choice of his motivations, people overestimate the dispositional factors (he's a pervert seeking confirmation) over the situational factors (he's taking a survey for his show, or he's trying to figure out where people's boundaries are - take note the original tweet did not specify the level of drunkenness or the ability to give consent).
The fun thing is the reason that the FAE is an error is because even if it were explained to us we would still do the same thing. Something to think about, there.
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