All you have to do is search for the term "victim" and you can find how I feel about blaming the victim.
I literally said it years ago. Not that anyone read it...
But there's something about blaming the victim that doesn't often come up any more.
Have you ever looked at the FBI stats for rape and compared them to a change in how the police and courts handled the victims?
When we started applying the philosophy that the rapist was the one responsible for the rape, irregardless of the sexual history of the victim or their manner of dress...
More rapists went to jail. Fewer rapes occur.
Blaming the victim for their portion of the victim selection process absolves the criminal of their crime.
This absolution leads to less stringent investigations and fewer convictions.
It's easy to blame the victim. It's also lazy.
Blaming the victim is also morally reprehensible.
The immoral like to talk big and cluck at how stupid the victims are, but they're really enabling the criminal and providing cover for their actions. After all, the immoral aren't blaming them for their crimes...
The criminal is responsible for their crime. That the victim made it easy is irrelevant.
Focusing on irrelevancies is a good sign that someone has no point to make and no moral ground to stand on.
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Angus, The Far Left seems to want to make violent and/or aberrant behavior the New Normal, while confiscating law abiding citizens ability to defend themselves.
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Good post (as always).
If one can blame the victim, then small, non-chain convenience store owners are at fault for robberies and theft at their stores because they can't afford bullet-proof glass and other expensive security features.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, white-collar crime victims are at fault because they don't have the background to understand all the legal and financial mumbo-jumbo that goes into so many white-collar crimes.
And... gun murder victims are at fault because they didn't use their matrix abilities to duck.
Once again, sir, you most magnificently state the obvious that isn't obvious to so many.
Dangit, you should be writing policy for the NRA, the GOA and all the other 2A lobbies, instead of the fuddish quislings up there.
Hey Angus;
ReplyDeleteThe name of the game is to stick it to the "flyover people" get us cowed and afraid. The cloud people that come up with this crap have their own guards and gated communities and their kids go to "good schools with security measures. We are stuck in no mans land trying to survive the latest imperial edict from the people that are insulated from their stupidity.