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SirGalahad

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Re: Random Thoughts....
« Reply #75 on: March 02, 2022, 12:03:56 am »
Mini rant, but I hate when people say “They deserved to get scammed because they were stupid enough to fall for it” or, put more gently, “People who fall for scams deserve it” (which still implies that intelligence in and of itself is valued while people who lack it are inherently less valuable). SO many people have this kind of attitude, even self proclaimed liberals and leftists to an extent. Does it not occur to them that nobody chooses to be “stupid enough to fall for a scam”? Why would they want that to happen to themselves? If they’re simply referring to people who are unmindful, a lack of mindfulness is still FAR less of an offense than scamming. And even if them falling for a scam is exactly because of their level of intelligence, why does that mean they deserve bad things to happen to them for an attribute they can’t control? Once again, it’s victim blaming, and it also an implicit condoning of scammers
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