On Responsibility

I follow, but haven’t often referred to Styxenhammer’s channel.

I strongly believe that a rapist, or a mugger, is responsible for their decision to take advantage of someone they’ve decided to a prey on.

I also believe that someone walking down the street in the bad part of town, having parted from their friends, while stumbling drunk, and waving money around, is putting themselves in a position where they will, with almost total certainty, be mugged. They are indeed the victim, but they stupidly put themselves in a situation of being easy prey, and any sympathy I would feel would be tempered somewhat.