(September 19, 2016 at 12:02 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Seeking to attach blame for a misdeed is an entirely natural human response to a misdeed.
I'm all for rational preparation, but attaching a pejorative label like "victim thinker" to someone simply because they want to attach blame for a crime is not only based on an unrealistic grasp of human psychology, it's also pretty heartless, I think.
A person can both stay prepared, and seek to place blame. Speaking rationally, asserting otherwise is a false dichotomy.
Certainly! And US courts agree and rightfully serve sentence to the guilty party of the rapist nearly no matter what the circumstance of the victim. Rape is rape and the volitional part (blame) is fully on the rapist which is mostly male because that's just how anatomy and evolutionary predisposition is.
I think the situation is worse than a "victim-hood, all men are rapists" mind set. It's becoming "women bear no self responsibility for their situation and their actions have no consequences."
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder