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SkyBelow • today at 12:08 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Society hold a strong double standard when it comes to the notion of blame in criminal acts. In some cases, it is fully put on the criminal. In other cases, it is put on victims of the criminal. While each case can use logic to try to defend it, they are different standards not used consistently. Trying to call out this double standard is a sort of act of profaning the current social norm and not appreciated by most, no different than trying to attack the dominant moral system 500 or 1000 years ago for inconsistencies.

If we were being consistent, then to your later question, yes. But pointing this out is picking at society's reverse scale.