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ParanoidObsessive posted...

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.

I definitely agree with this. I think there is a line at which one should expect negative consequences based on a series of stupid decisions. I just don't think this was one of those cases where it's accurate to say that this man provoked the violence that he received.