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SoftwareMaven on Oct 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US

Blaming the victim is never the right thing to do. In a well-ordered society, people are expected to obey the law.

I can't even imagine how awful a world that expected punished victims for their crimes would be.

phaemon on Oct 16, 2012 [–]

No-one's blaming the victim. They're blaming the security team who were supposed to be protecting the victim.

They don't get to be appallingly incompetent at their jobs because someone took advantage of it!

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