But Weren’t They Asking For It?

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by James Schlarmann


Is it just me? Am I the only one who thinks that a certain segment of the population that gets a lot of attention for being “victims” of a crime are getting away with shirking their own responsibility for the crime being committed? This certain segment of the population gets so many headlines and there’s always a lot of pressure on police organizations to solve the crime that was committed, and even more pressure on the district attorneys to secure convictions for those who perpetrate the crimes, despite whether or not the “victim” in this case did anything to make the crime occur. I think it’s time we had a real, frank discussion about whether these “victims” are in fact actually asking for it.

And of course I’m referring to murder victims.

I mean, why all the hub-bub over people being murdered anyway? How are we to be sure that the person murdered didn’t do anything to do deserve it? Can we really say they’re totally blameless if we weren’t there? What if the “victim” was giving the murderer the eyes? I mean, until you’ve been in an intimate situation and had someone give you that, “Don’t you just totally want to murder the fuck outta me right now?” look, you just can’t speak to how powerful that feeling is, and murderers are going to be murders.

We have to ask ourselves some questions about these so-called “victims.”

Did they go out of their house dressed in a way that would make it hard for any would-be murderer to ignore? Did they walk down an alleyway they were unfamiliar with, thereby giving up all their protection from murder, as written in some law book somewhere? Did they walk around town with a giant sandwich board on their necks that said, “I love to be murdered. Please come and murder me,” as they asked every person they could find on the street to kill them? The point is, that we just can never know, and so you have to ask yourself what level of culpability to people have when they are the victim of a crime?



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