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In reply to the discussion: Are you victim blaming when you encourage people not to take nude selfies? [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)They have no expectation of privacy when using the internet to conduct their banking - worried about hackers, drive to the bank and walk it in like real Americans used to. Just don't anyone see you holding that money when you walk in to the bank, or if you open your wallet/purse when in a store paying for that can of pop to drink on the way. It might lure them to you.
That said - there is something to be said about being risk aware and making yourself risk adverse.
Mom used to call it common sense. 'Bring that damn bike in at night before you go to bed or someone will steal it, and I don't have the money to get you another one' which means she was putting the responsibility on us to secure our things (and yes, if they had been stolen she would have blamed both us and the person stealing it - one for doing it and us for not listening to her when she told us there were people who would and doing nothing sensible to deter them). When camping she and dad would tell us to seal things up or else the racoons would get into it all. It wasn't about 'well you deserve it' if they did, it was simply 'this is how racoons act, you can't control them, but you can thwart them'.