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I think the threshold for victim blaming depends on the event. Your examples of rape and murder have an extremely high threshold for victim blaming, where you s
by 12907835202 4y ago
I think the threshold for victim blaming depends on the event. Your examples of rape and murder have an extremely high threshold for victim blaming, where you should almost never, but perhaps in some cases you still could e.g. responding to a cannibal who advertised for victims on a forum.
Things like gambling, pay day loans, credit cards, buy now pay later are all forms of predatory behaviour and are in that way similar to rape/murder but considerably less grievous. The threshold for victim blaming is alot less in these situations but you certainly still could.
I don't think you should admonish someone for victim blaming here or make out they're equivalent to rape or murder, they're clearly not.
Is the person who built his house upon the sand to blame or is he an innocent victim of the people who sold him the land, the bricks, the plans and the labour?
- xracy 4y agoEveryone here is taking a single example from the article and assuming it applies to all people who use these services. I think the comparison, albeit a bit extreme, is fair given that everyone presupposes there's no good reason to use these services and everyone knew what they were getting themselves into off of one anecdote. Mostly because it's at least drawing people to consider there is another side to this.