Unless you are really into some strange stuff with your “laptop computer” I really don’t think date rape is at all comparable.
I thought (of course) that my comparison was a relevant one. Pnh’s comment was that the parents shouldn’t complain about any nefarious activities the school district uses the “free” laptops for because the parents didn’t have to pay for them, and therefore must accept whatever the school district wants to do. Similarly, using the same warped logic, one could also say that a woman who accepts a free dinner from a man shouldn’t complain about, and should expect the man to therefore do whatever he wants with her as a result. It’s crazy, but it follows the same twisted logic that pnh applied.