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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I don't see the difference whatsoever, as I brought up the comparison earlier. What you just said would be the equivalent of telling a woman who was raped "no I don't blame you, but maybe you should examine your lifestyle and dress and see how it fits into the sexual desires which breed such attacks".
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I'll try one last time to show how this is a false analogy before moving on, because it's important to me.
A rape victim with a low cut dress is NOT to blame on her attack. This is because her way of dressing in no way
harms or impoverishes the lifestyle of the attacker. Her way of dressing doesn't affect the economic and political climate in a way which maintains the world status quo, keeping the poor poor and the rich rich. Finally, her way of dressing does not support and install puppet/opressive regimes in third world or middle east countries.
A rape victim clearly does not hold the higher power position.
For whoever set the bombs off in London, this is about more than "wanting something we have."