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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The problem with treating victims is, that it cannot be done going forward. Any precaution to not become a victim again is literally blaming the victim.
The preventable steps do not work to eliminate victims from being exploited. It only lowers the chances for you personally to become a victim by highly increasing the chances for someone else to be the next victim. But that is okay, because you are safe. It was the other person's fault for being less diligent. Right? No, wrong, as you are again victim blaming.
The dark alley example gets thrown around a lot. Bad things will happen. Don't go there. A self fulfilling prophecy, if you ask me. We as a society enabled the bullies to flock around dark alleys, because the majority of people avoids dark alleys out of fear of a potential bully.
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Two very different issues. There is a lot of research by psychologists on preventing crime by keeping people from becoming criminals (which is what you seem to be focused on). It's successful for some people, not so successful for others. With all the knee jerk reactions towards teaching people to minimize their chance at being the victim, I have zero interest in discussing keeping people from become criminals. It's much more controversial.
Part of the problem is what I like to call the "solving world hunger" issue. For some people, if you don't have a 100% solution for every aspect of a problem, then you are absolute garbage and having done anything. They will shout down anything that isn't a 100% solution. It's all "well what about this", "well, what about that". We aren't solving world hunger. We are solving this one small piece of the puzzle. You eat an elephant one bite at a time, not in one humongous gulp.