"What did they expect" is a knee-jerk response to a lot of things that completely avoids thinking about who is responsible for what. I suspect you meant it sar

"What did they expect" is a knee-jerk response to a lot of things that completely avoids thinking about who is responsible for what. I suspect you meant it sarcastically, here, but a lot of people don't. I think it leads to a sort of moral degradation, where wrongdoing is "expected" or "normal" and so not worth pushing back against.