The very first thing that should have been written into the constitution of the United States of America is the total abolishment of money and any other arbitrary means of globally defining the value of an individual person or legally active entity. Period. Even if the attempt at such a society utterly failed we would have, at the very least, had even a fraction of a chance for change. Not having made that a priority for the American nation merely made Americans nothing more than younger version of every other country ever, doomed to repeat exactly the same story of greed and selfishness. We are nothing more than a people who were fed up with one king-of-the-hill only to go find another hill and make another stupid king. We simply traded religious dictatorship for wealthy dictatorship. You shouldn't need to be a genius to figure out that you can't have equality without actually being equal.
It's not victim shaming to ask: "Did you take the necessary precautions?" The fact that the victim was operating with reckless abandon doesn't change the level of atrocity done to the victim, but it sure as fuck changes my level of sympathy for the victim. When a child runs toward a busy street the instinct of a parent is to scold the child because it doesn't understand the seriousness of its actions. Likewise when I see a woman walking around dressed in a way that provokes attention to herself in a sexual manner I want to call out to that woman and say: "Hey - small adult-child who was raised in a society that has sabotaged your sensibility as an intelligent human being - hey - you're in danger!" I'm not saying that the woman shouldn't be allowed to dress how she wants. Nor am I saying that she should have to worry about men's reactions. However, saying that the solution to the problem is to tell men that they should &q