Just as a general rule, if the water suddenly recedes very quickly from the shoreline, the thing to do is not to go running out into the now-vacant sands, wondering what is going on. It’s probably not boding anything good.
I dunno. Maybe it came from growing up in earthquake country, but it seems to me I learned that one a looooong time ago.
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I know. It seems totally common knowledge to me, too, although my wife didn’t seem to know about it.
And, although this has nothing to do with the subject of this post in particular, I think blaming the victim has gotten itself a bad name. There are a host of times when “blaming the victim” is perfectly appropriate.
Blaming the victim is only a problem when things are considered a zero-sum game, where one has to allocate “blame” up to 100%.
So, in the most common framing of it, rape is rape whether the victim is a grandmother sitting in her home when someone breaks in or is a young woman wandering bad streets in short-shorts and a tube-top. Nothing excuses rape — but, one can reasonably consider whether the victim did stupid things *in addition* to the question of whether a crime was committed.
Similarly, one can say that Jews who continued to hang out in Germany after Kristallnacht who could have left were acting in a foolish and irresponsible fashion. That doesn’t mean that the Nazis who sent them to the camps were any less culpable for doing so.