The problem with people like you and your shitty attitude, is that by blaming the victim, you excuse the greater evil of the criminal.

Y'know in this case I think people trying to fund international mercenaries to kill people they have no business fighting might actually be a greater evil than scam artists grifting donations. So by that metric you probably still should be blaming the people who got conned.

But regardless of the present example and in a more general sense, blaming one doesn't mean excusing the other. I'm pretty sure I can manage apportioning blame to more than one party because im not a mental child. So even in the absence of explicit blame laying on both parties, if you're treating someone as an adult it's probably disrespectful to assume laying any blame on one party is excusing the other.

Allow me to flip to the next chapter of your quoted rationale. By completely excusing the irresponsible victims and making responsible victims share an equal portion of the burden of protecting them, you punish the greater good of responsibility and self-control. You don't have to do that.

You can grade their stupidly on a curve and budget their support/pay-in accordingly. It doesn't have to incentivize crime, you can still punish criminals fully as well as making idiots pay a "stupid surplus" on their recovered money to give everyone else a tax break next year.

The problem with people like you and your shitty attitude, is that by blaming the victim, you excuse the greater evil of the criminal.

Y'know in this case I think people trying to fund international mercenaries to kill people they have no business fighting might actually be a greater evil than scam artists grifting donations. So by that metric you probably still should be blaming the people who got conned.

But regardless of the present example and in a more general sense, blaming on doesn't mean excusing the other. I'm pretty sure I can manage apportioning blame to more than one party, I don't need treating like a mental child. The criminal gets the majority of the blame, but irresponsibility gets you a certain slice of the blame too.

Allow me to flip to the next chapter of your quoted rationale. By completely excusing the irresponsible victims and making responsible victims share an equal portion of the burden of protecting them, you punish the greater good of responsibility and self-control. You don't have to do that.

You can grade their stupidly on a curve and budget their support/pay-in accordingly. It doesn't have to incentivize crime, you can still punish criminals fully as well as making idiots pay a "stupid surplus" on their recovered money to give everyone else a tax break next year.