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Why accidents aren't accidental
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Urge to Blame Victims in Accidents
Questions of blame are really important to us when things get scary. Seemingly random horrors and tragedies are terrifying. Victim blaming, or even perpetrator blaming, is a comfort because it's a way of feeling in control of an uncontrollable situation. And that's exactly what happened with my best friends death. He was killed under a dangerous condition that was disregarded because the person who killed him was drunk. We sent that person to prison, and we did nothing else. The same thing happened again and again and again. It seeds important to point out victims are specially blamed, and that's because they're dead or they're hurt. When someone is dead or hurt, they're specially the symbol
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