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Old 09-01-2014, 08:23 PM   #64
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Kind of an aside, victim blaming is a studied psychological phenomenon, the more innocent a victim appears, or the more unjust the action against the victim, the more likely someone is to detract from the victim in some way. Studies of rape, poverty, car accidents, or even illness show this phenomenon where people find reasons to blame the victim for what happened.

We avoid feeling vulnerable, and a world where the innocent can suffer, where bad things happen to good people, makes us feel vulnerable (since it can happen to them it can happen to me). So we choose to believe that the universe is just (what goes around comes around, you reap what you sow, or that bad people get eternal punishment), and therefore the victim must have deserved it, and then find a reason to rationalize it.
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