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Originally Posted by GaryV1188
I don't think we're blaming the victims and excusing the criminals. Rather, we're blaming the lack of judgement that contributes to becoming a victim.
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"When are...children going to stop passing the blame and grow up enough to take responsibility for their actions."
"their corrupt children"
"The young (<15) girls that post pictures of themselveson myspace that portray themselves to be "SEXY" or lie about their age or do other things that perverts go around and look for to seduce are automaticly removed from my sypathy to a degree."
"I think it's a bit of a two-way street. There are people posting pictures of them, making themselves out to be older and slutty"
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These, to me, do not read as tales of caution, but of assignments of blame. A crime is never a 'two-way street,' no matter how morally or ethically bankrupt you may consider the victim to be.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir, but maybe some others might consider that no matter how 'slutty' or 'sexy' someone appears to be, they do not deserve to be victimized. Ever.
There are probably equally as many posts that are correctly citing poor parenting and misunderstanding the dangers of the internet, to be fair, but I'm a bit surprised and upset to see at all that people think that these kids -- no matter how provacative they claim to be, they're still kids, after all -- have any role in the mania of criminals.