Where I work if there is a physical fight of any description both parties are liable to be sacked. The view is that it takes two to cause an arguement and both sides are as guilty as each other.
That's an easy to follow rule. Rarely fair, though. In the real world, every day people are assaulted simply because the assaillant look at them as easy victims, or simply because they are there at the time. Luckily, the judicial system doesn't blame the victim "equally".
Yes, it takes two. At least one victim and at least one assailant.
To categorically divide the blame equally is like having someone in a car mow into a pedestrians on the sidewalk, and then claim that both are equally to blame.
Obviously, sometimes a pedestrian is to blame, if he, say, jumps out in front of vehicle, but to think that he always shares 50 percent of the blame is just stupid.
