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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although probably some of you pedantic posters would argue that the woman who died during a tornado because a tree fell in her house wasn’t a victim since “she cHoSe to live in a place with tornados” or “she chose to have trees within the vicinity of her house”[/quote]

It makes them feel safe to figure out why everyone who has a tragedy was somehow responsible. [/quote]

This exactly.

It us called the Just World Hypothesis (a psychological defense mechanism).

See also, Fundamental Attribution Error. [/quote]

I think you're misusing the term. There's a huge difference in some tragedy befalling a person participating in daily activities and someone being struck by lightning when they intentionally take a sailboat into the ocean during a hurricane because it's exciting. The latter defies commonsense.[/quote]

And what’s that difference? That you feel sad for the person who died mowing the lawn but you think it makes sense to blast the person who went on the sailboat? So if someone does something you wouldn’t do then you don’t care if they died?

You can certainly care less about their death if you want. But to me there’s a big difference between silently thinking that and trying to demonize people who died. [/quote]

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