Do you believe our society is currently programmed to victim blame or we are already doing the best we can to handle malicious people?
Do you believe our society is currently programmed to victim blame or we are already doing the best we can to handle malicious people?
I’m in the “little bit of both” camp here.
By definition if you’re a malicious manipulator you’re being a bad person. (Disagree? Look up what “malicious” means…) And bad people really should be punished. (But that’s not the end-all, be-all of things: good people should also be rewarded!)
On the other hand, you live in a world where bad actors exist. At some level you have to watch out for yourself instead of dumping that burden on literally everybody around you who in some form or another cares about you.
Where things get complicated for me is when the people who are victims of malicious manipulators have been manipulated through their own desire to be, well, malicious. The victims of 419 scams, for example, are sucked in by malicious manipulators through a desire to benefit through what amounts to malicious manipulation. They wanted to be scammers themselves; it just turns out that they were incompetent at it and got scammed instead. Here my feelings are mixed.