For example, let's say someone is stumbling drunk and wanders into Central Park at night and gets robbed. While it's not right that they got robbed does this person bear no responsibility for engaging in actions that increased the odds that they would be targeted?
That person would be guilty of poor planning, but since they have both the legal and moral right to wander as they will through Central Park at night, drunk or otherwise, the perpetrator cannot use "they were asking for it" as a defense. Being an easy victim is a bad idea on the part of the potential victim, but the fact that a potential victim was easy neither exculpates nor even mitigates the actions of the criminal in choosing to commit a crime against that individual.
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Date: 2012-04-09 01:32 pm (UTC)That person would be guilty of poor planning, but since they have both the legal and moral right to wander as they will through Central Park at night, drunk or otherwise, the perpetrator cannot use "they were asking for it" as a defense. Being an easy victim is a bad idea on the part of the potential victim, but the fact that a potential victim was easy neither exculpates nor even mitigates the actions of the criminal in choosing to commit a crime against that individual.