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[Beartracks]

127. Several people have mentioned RISK.

Increasing one's RISK of something bad happening is still not the same as ASKING for something bad to happen.

Parking my car in a bad neighborhood all night will certainly increase the RISK of it being stolen. And that risk is even greater if my car is a Ferrari. And yet... it is still the THIEF who actually did something wrong, and I am still the victim because I did not ASK for the car to be stolen.

Likewise, I may put my nudies on the cloud, which means they are at greater risk of being hacked than if I kept them at home on my hard drive. And the hacking risk is much greater if I'm a hot celebrity. And yet... the hacker is still the wrongdoer, and I am still the victim.

Did I ASK for bad things to happen to my car, pics, or reputation? Certainly not. Did I take proper precautions, knowing that my Ferrari and hot bod shots are likelier targets for theft than would be a Gremlin or muffin top selfies? Maybe I just didn't consider the likelihood that the bad street and the hackable cloud are not the most secure places for these items. But I still didn't ASK for them to be stolen. As Manny Goldstein noted up-thread, I chose the convenience.

You can blame someone for not properly protecting their stuff from highly likely theft situations.... but the criminal is still the criminal. Does the victim in such cases do something inherently WRONG? No. Dumb, maybe; but not immoral.

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