re: If you choose to expose yourself to risk, don't you deserve the consequence?

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My wife thinks that saying what we are saying is blaming the victim, which isnt cool. I'm not blaming the victim, i just think the victim is a poor decision maker.

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It's a fine line to say the least. At the end of the day, if a person is murdered because he walks through a bad part of town in 2016 America, I don't want to say or do anything that deflects blame from that part of town.

In other words, I think you can argue that some of these problems get swept under the rug when we say the victim should have been more diligent or made better choices. How about we do something about the fact that there are places in major American cities where you can reasonably expect to be murdered just for entering.