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GunslingerGunsl posted...

You clearly don't recognize your own victim-blaming.

Victim blaming is definitely bad when someone uses it to absolve the guilt of the perpetrator, but that doesn't really change the fact that some victims are absolutely responsible for provoking their own victimization, and should be treated accordingly.

It's an important distinction, and one way too many people online have grown completely blind to as of late.

If you're wandering around in the middle of the night in a city with a known high rate of crime, waving money around, paying absolutely no attention to your environment, and generally acting like an ass, I'm going to have a hell of a lot less sympathy for you than I would if you were just randomly standing around in a relatively safe part of town in the middle of the day and got jumped out of nowhere with absolutely no provocation. Victim or no, you still have to take responsibility for your own actions.



Flappers posted...

You can't commit a crime upon somebody just because you perceive that they've opened themselves up to it. That's garbage and if everybody thought like that then imagine how many times we'd all get assaulted and then told it was our fault.

The thing is, it's entirely possible to say that the criminals are entirely responsible for their own reprehensible actions while still accurately pointing out that the victim was an idiot.

It's not an either-or situation where one side is clearly 100% right and the other is 100% wrong. It is more than possible for everyone involved to be 100% wrong and deserving of scorn.
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