It seems hard to argue with the cops. “You’re 21 and sleep in someone’s house for free? You get drunk in his house and blame the host?”
A lack of common sense is often fatal.
A lack of common sense is often fatal.
the role of a host is at minimum to provide a safe place for someone to crash. i really felt safe at the ~10 places i stayed. I'm male, so definite bias, but i met other surfers that were female and had similar experiences to mine and female hosts that never had issues. profiles could have shaped the version of couch surfing i was seeing however.
It’s still stupid.
What you say is true: it is cool and positive social experience on travels are fantastic. However, objectively, A has a lower risk profile. B is creating doors to possible negative outcomes. These doors may never open for B, but for A’s risk profile, some of these doors (paths to potential negative outcomes) do not even exist.
Additionally, for the potential predator, A’s behavior raises risk for the predator and B’s lowers it. So B type behavior raises possibility of negative outcome at both levels: vulnerability is raised for victim, and control over the situation and outcome (i.e. assault) is increased for the predator.