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Originally Posted by Melkerson
Yeah, I'm with you on this point. But for some reason around here, it's verboten by some to even mention anything a victim could have done to reduce his risk.
It doesn't matter how many times you preface it with "Now this doesn't excuse the perp in any way..." or something like that. You're still a dirty victim blamer and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I think it's more in how unevenly and vociferously the standard is applied.
If someone resists arrest and gets killed, the authority-worshippers come out of the woodwork to blame the victim.
If a woman dresses sluttily and gets groped, the MRAs come out of the woodwork to "not blaming the victim, buuuuuut...".
Meanwhile someone who lives in a suburb way out in the sticks and drives 30 miles each way to work hears about someone they know getting robbed in the city and thinks "Welp, that's what you get."
With Warmbler it seems like the people who are scared of their own shadow
are coming out of the woodwork to say "See, this is why I never leave the house!"
But of course they do leave the house and probably do plenty of stuff that's just as risky when you multiply it over decades vs. a one time chance at getting detained in NK - in which you still have to get drunk and do something very dumb to actually get in trouble.
And literally Warmbler seems to be the only American ever detained that wasn't trying to spread Christianity or report on or subvert the NK govt.
Anyone who lives in a "gritty" urban neighborhood or drives an hour on the freeway every day, but is scared to go to NK probably isn't evaluating both sets of risks on equal footing.