Rape vs Virtue

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Roy
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Re: Rape vs Virtue

Post by Roy »

It is perfectly fine to evaluate our own stupidity and fault for our own negative circumstances and events. It is somewhat more dangerous to evaluate the "stupidity" and "fault" of others. Far too often, humans tend to justify that those that are suffering more or less deserve their circumstances. We make snap judgments and aspersions on others with only a tiny fraction of the "big picture."

This is especially true in situations of rape and/or murder. No victim ever asks for that. No victim ever has that coming. No victim ever is to blame or at fault or even partly responsible for being attacked by another. Those that survive these types of situation quite often wrongly place blame upon themselves for being vulnerable.

To anyone reading these words that has lived through something similar, you are not at fault... not even a tiny bit.

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