Eh I think there's balance. On one hand I do certain things like cross the road or not go to certain areas at certain times, things we shouldn't _have_ to do.

Eh I think there's balance. On one hand I do certain things like cross the road or not go to certain areas at certain times, things we shouldn't _have_ to do. And I think the victim blaming thing is less "you didn't follow common sense" and more "this happened to you because you asked for it". It basically boils down to: yes, people should follow common sense, but it's not their fault that bad people are out there - it's all of our faults in society, and we should get better at figuring out how to prevent these things happening at all. Ie rather than just dismissing an area as a "bad place to go at night", we should probably try to address why it is so, and fix it.