nominalist wrote:
anbuend wrote:
I think some of the posters are using the word "victim" to mean a particular state of mind, and others are using "victim" to mean an objective term that just means that someone did something bad to someone else.
I know. However, I personally see the "state of mind" definition as psychological reductionism.
So do I, actually. I really have trouble seeing it anything
other than "someone did something to this person", rather than... whatever strangeness about "You're only a victim if you let people" (which sounds strangely like "If someone manages to harm you in some way, it's your own fault" to my ears.)
I think it's more people looking to not having to do anything about it. If they have to do something about it then it means effort. Seeing it as an actual problem that isn't the victim's fault, then that puts a sort of obligation on their part, which they seem to want to avoid.
11 Jan 2008, 8:13 pm
