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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is an inherent problem with how people define "victim blaming". Here is an example:

A person decides to walk down a city street late at night while holding a bunch of cash over their head and singing loudly. Someone robs them.

I say: "That person should have not walked down that street doing that". That statement is an undeniable truth. Their decision played a role in what happened. BUT...I am NOT blaming them. The fault lies solely on the person who robbed them. That person shouldn't have done a bad thing, not matter what.

Again, I'm not BLAMING the victim, but they did play a role and could have made better decisions (even though they shouldn't have to).

Do you still think I'm victim-blaming?
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It’s really this.

I closely follow a case where a woman had a creepy colleague who was obsessed with her. One day he asked for a ride home and she gave it to him. He killed her. Did she deserve to die? Absolutely not. Did she play a role by agreeing to give her creepy stalker a ride? Yes.

Back in college I went on a sketchy date with an even sketchier stranger who asked me to lunch after a brief conversation in the campus bookstore, because I was dumb. If something would have gone terribly wrong, my role would have mattered in the outcome. [/quote]

She "played a role" in her own murder because she agreed to give a colleague a ride home?

GTFO. I would argue you are much dumber than your college-age self accepting some sketchy lunch date if you actually believe that. I mean, why stop with the ride? Wasn't she complicit for continuing to work there even after the guy had been creepy? She should have quit her job and gone to work somewhere else. Or wait, should she even have started working there in the first place? She should have anticipated that one of her colleagues might have been a creepy killer and just gone to work somewhere else. Perhaps the error was in choosing that career path, whatever it was -- did she compare the psychological profiles of men in working in various fields and choose the one with the lowest rate of creepy or potentially dangerous behavior? Well that's on her then.

You sound like such an idiot.[/quote]

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